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Thread #43817   Message #644055
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
06-Feb-02 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Grammar: Use of the semi colon
Subject: RE: BS: Grammar: Use of the semi colon
Inrecognizable does not yet exist as a word, but if you use it enough, someone will pick it up and run with it- much like our modern word proactive. What is an "eroded" in? Both are honorable prefixes.
"Ir- is the assimilated form in Latin of the prefix in- before initial letter r, used in the same way in English (and much more frequent than in-) in words such as irrational," as well as irrecoverable, irreligion and irrecognizable. OED