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OP No, no--not that kind! [borrowing from Helen e]
Today's Word reminded me of something I was wondering about the other day while driving: why do we have so many words that end in -mat or -matic? Chromatic; traumatic; laundromat (is an automatic laundromat a laundromatic?); idiomatic; symptomatic; instamatic; dramatic; problematic, etc.
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