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"Ships can be birthed and rebirthed"
Dear Rod: This seems to be a bit of Britspeak. I would say "Ships can be berthed and re-berthed." My dictionary gives nothing under "birth" to match your usage.
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Don't keel him over this Bill - I think it was just a slip  
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Ships can be birthed and rebirthed"
wwh would say "Ships can be berthed and re-berthed."
Bill, you are right! "i" before "e" except after sea! It was just a weak pun like the rest of it, sorry.
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Is that full price or fool-price?
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Is the use of words like 'bad' and 'wicked' to mean good inaptonymic?
Is the use of inaptonymic just taking things a little too far?
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Hi, doc. I've really been enjoying your posts. I just checked your bio--reckon you and Alex can exchange war stories. And, good heavens--up until just now, I had been reading this topic as inapt ronyms.  Anyway, you posted Is the use of inaptonymic just taking things a little too far?Isn't that an inaptonymic question?
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Isn't that an inaptonymic question?...and so making doc_comfort an inaptronymic name?
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And, good heavens--up until just now, I had been reading this topic as inaptronyms.
oh, jackie... that's positively eerie; i'd been doing the same thing, and realized it only about two posts before yours. has it perhaps been typed as inaptronym somewhere previously? [too-lazy-to-do-a-search-e]. it seems unlikely that we would both experience the same mental epenthis.
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