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Re: octuplicate

#11876 12/03/2000 6:33 PM

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Max Quordlepleen

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Max Quordlepleen

Carpal Tunnel

Joined: Aug 2000

Posts: 3,409

OED skips from septemplicate (seven-fold) to centuplicate (ten-fold).

Why "centuplicate" for tenfold? Why not "decuplicate"? Talk about a red-herring word - the unashamedly semi-literate among us would (did) leap to the contusion that centuplicate means one-hundred-fold.

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octuplicate Father Steve 12/03/2000 6:31 AM

Re: octuplicate Max Quordlepleen 12/03/2000 6:54 AM

Re: octuplicate Capital Kiwi 12/03/2000 11:46 AM

Re: octuplicate tsuwm 12/03/2000 4:52 PM

Re: octuplicate Max Quordlepleen 12/03/2000 6:33 PM

Re: octuplicate tsuwm 12/03/2000 7:52 PM

Re: octuplicate Max Quordlepleen 12/03/2000 9:21 PM

Re: octuplicate Marty 12/03/2000 10:53 PM

Re: octuplicate Capital Kiwi 12/04/2000 6:58 AM

Re: Anu - the one and only Max Quordlepleen 12/04/2000 7:02 AM

Re: Anu - the one and only Capital Kiwi 12/04/2000 7:05 AM

Re: Anu - the one and only Avy 12/05/2000 12:45 AM

Splutter.. Cough... shanks 12/05/2000 9:27 AM

Re: Splutter.. Cough... Avy 12/06/2000 1:01 AM

Re: Anu - the one and only AnnaStrophic 12/06/2000 1:18 AM

Re: Anu - the one and only Jackie 12/06/2000 6:00 AM

There's only one gutter-Queen! shanks 12/06/2000 9:20 AM

Re: There's only one gutter-Queen! Jackie 12/06/2000 12:48 PM

Re: There's only one gutter-Queen! shanks 12/06/2000 1:43 PM

Re: There's only one gutter-Queen! belMarduk 12/06/2000 9:02 PM

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