The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43817   Message #643923
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
06-Feb-02 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Grammar: Use of the semi colon
Subject: RE: BS: Grammar: Use of the semi colon
Irrecognizable and unrecognizable both appeared in written form in the 19th C. When they were coined is unknown. The "ir-" in the sense of not goes back at least to the 14th century. "Un-" is probably as old, but I leave the detection to the lexicographers. Thread creep, anyway.