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#110590 08/22/03 12:31 AM
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>So do the zed'ers outnumber the zee'ers?

Depends how you count. The number of nations where zed is standard is greater than the number of nations where zee is standard(afaik, only one "English as first language" country uses "zee"). However, that one one nation has more English speakers than the others put together.


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all this alphabetification aside, I don't think the word fits anyway.



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Agreed, et. Your first comment stands. Strange, though - the word got me thinking this is (almost) another of those constructions in which the root form is friendless - has anyone actually read a document using the verb to patriate? Repatriate, expatriate, surebut®...

and in the only online dictionary ref I saw (from an admittedly cursory look), guess which is one of the countries to recognise this word patriate as of useful service?!

http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0580359.html


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B&M OED lists impatriotic. It means not patriotic.


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> impatriotic.

I like it. Would you say that's relation to unpatriotic is akin to the relationship between amoral and immoral? I would much rather describe myself as passionately impatriotic, if I understand its meaning correctly.


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akin to the relationship between amoral and immoral?

I didn't get that feeling from OED, but I like it, too.

Count me in.


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Obs. rare.

Not patriotic; unpatriotic. So impatriotism, want of patriotism.

1805 W. TAYLOR in Ann. Rev. III. 281 Nothing of impiety, but only of impatriotism. Ibid. 317 Every thing..which infringes on our cosmopolitical duty is really impatriotic.


although it appears that this word belonged exclusively to W. Taylor (R.I.P.), someone out there may be renewing the ®. why not just coin "apatriotic"?

(aptually®, apatriotic gets 150 Googles®; most of them are clearly typos, but here's something apropos from Groups:
The people who try to *keep* people from expressing their opinions are unpatriotic, while the sheep who have no opinion are apatriotic. :)
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www.impatriotic.com purports to sell First and Second Run decks of the infamous "Most Wanted" deck of cards.

This site (http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/niger_delta/nd128032003.html) uses the word. Perhaps one could suss out the meaning from the context.


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>www.impatriotic.com

it appears that www.unpatriotic.com was already taken; and there seems to be a claim in for www.apatriotic.com -- let's hope they get it right!


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Well I'm definitely not un- or a-patriotic so darn there goes another good word uncoined.


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