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When and where did this back-formation occur? I always understood a back-formation was a (wrongly) assumed source for a word, which then became used in its own right, such as scavenger being assumed to come from a verb scavenge which did not actually exist until after a verb for the noun was thought desirable.
So, was fomites adopted into English and then fomite assumed? If so, what was fomites used to mean in English, and when did it drop out?
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Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted fomite zmjezhd 09/12/05 02:17 PM Re: fomite Bingley 09/13/05 05:29 AM Re: fomite Faldage 09/13/05 09:42 AM Re: fomite dalehileman 01/21/07 03:20 PM Re: fomite BranShea 01/21/07 04:31 PM Re: fomite iska 08/08/10 07:29 AM Re: fomite pachills 08/20/10 09:49 AM Re: fomite beck123 08/21/10 04:18 AM Re: fomite tsuwm 08/21/10 05:42 AM Re: fomite beck123 08/21/10 11:25 AM Re: fomite Faldage 10/05/10 10:41 PM Re: fomite Candy 10/10/10 02:21 AM
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