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You have a point about Webster's not specifically calling
"couth" a backformation. And you're right that the dictionary
categorized "uncouth" as Middle English, not Old English
(which wasn't what I intended to claim; I wrote "old English"
as in "not contemporary" but I should have been more clear).
Does anybody on this list have access to the Oxford English
Dictionary? If so, would you please tell us what the OED says
about "couth/uncouth"? Thanks!
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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The opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of my
company -- but they probably should be.
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