Grammar Caitrin the WIcked Word Witch swoops overhead, riding an overly long sentence, correcting semantic errors and causing 'catters to scramble in all directions -- she veers off into the rising moon, cackling madly .... "AND your dangling little participle, toooo! Heeeee heeeee.....".

Actually, Caitrin I admire your stout defense of good language practices. I hammer on various abuses all day at work.

"Notate", while incorrect, is an excellent example of a back formation from "notation". When you make gyrations, you gyrate; similar for inflations, and others. So it's understandable to assume a parallel where none were nohow anyway, am I right?

Ok, ok, back on the broom.