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Re: self-referential and/or preposterous words



Maybe like in the newspaper business Sunday is silly season. Or as in the
tests Summer is to newspapers, as _________ is to PHYS-L?

bc who is often silly


Hugh Haskell wrote:

At 14:27 -0400 9/30/01, John S. Denker wrote:

It is amusing to think of other words that exemplify themselves. Examples
include:
-- noun
-- newspeak
-- pentasyllabic

And I could ask why "abbreviation" is such a long word (in fact, most
of the time it is abbreviated), but if we want to get into a
protracted discussion of the inconsistencies of the English language,
we're probably going to have to change the name of this list, because
that is all we'll have time to talk about.

Hugh
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