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One of my pet peeves is the illogical use of the "ee" suffix to denote one doing something instead of being the object of an action. "Inductee", "amputee", "transferee", etc. may not be elegant, but you know where they stand, grammatically speaking. But "escapee"?? Since it obviously means, one who is escaping or has escaped, how does it come to have that suffix? If a noun has to be made from "escape" it should be "escaper" or "escapist" (ugh! better to conclude that no such noun has to be made.) There are others along this line which escape me at the moment.
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