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Explain yourself, young man. Earlier you said:In reply to:
its connotation is surely mostly just like the suffix ~ette, leading to a sense of diminutive.(ea)Now you say
In reply to:I agree on the primary sense. But FS was correct in drawing attention to the other meaning - it exists, it's out there.(ea)
and go on to reference a dictionary which lists the meaning I offered as the first of two.
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