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Father Steve: If someone were sitting on a beach in Mexico, drinking the local beer and thinking about AWAD, and typed in a question which had been answered sometime in the distant past, but which eluded the quixotic search engine of this website, would that person be accused of suffering from Corona-ry yartery disease?
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would that person be accused of suffering from Corona-ry yartery disease?Not I 'cause I'd be sippin' on De Leon.
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”A mi, me gustarķa tomar India!
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cross-thread: Nero Wolfe once burned a dictionary because it stated that imply and infer were synonyms.
and Webster's NI3 was (in 1961) roundly criticized for synonymizing dis- and un-interested. There. Back on the subject.
Dislike and unlike are completely unrelated.
Disapprove and "unapprove" (= rescind) are getting closer.
Uncompliant and non-compliant? Only because the root has different meanings: (compliant = 1)obedient or 2)distensible)
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Got one. Unused is different from disused: un- implies "never" and dis- implies (connotes? Sorry. Cross-threading again) "formerly but not any longer."
"Disuse atrophy" is what happens to muscles that have lost their nerve supply because of trauma or (more often) stroke.
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disabused and unabused--there's is an other.. (is this really subject really a YART? -- it seems all new to me.)
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dis-enchanted un-enchanted
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Disinfected/uninfected Discover/uncover
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Good work, Bingley. The dis/uncover pair is the first one that wouldn't directly support the contention that the original defintions of dis/uninterested make more sense than the present-day prescriptions. They don't support the modern idea, either. Discover seems to be mostly more metaphoric.
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