Re: death of un negation prefix

From: don groves (no-one_at_nowhere.not)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:32:50 -0700

In article <1gjb3dy.1jhwcryybqdrbN%trio@euronet.nl>,
trio@euronet.nl wrote...
> don groves <no-one@nowhere.not> wrote:
>
> > I'll volunteer a word used quite a bit in leftpondia recently
> > "unpresidential"
> > --
> I don't know why the Subject line says "un", but the question on the
> table was about "in-". Adjectives beginning with in- first attested
> after 1900.

Sorry, I thought the original question was re 'in or 'un'.

Also, I was in the middle of asnwering your question about why I
think "Go west, ..." referred to Chicago when our power went out.
All I can recall is hearing the phrase long ago in the context of
Chicago at that time being the "next New York". 

--
dg

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