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From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'lost positives'
Message-ID: <661@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 20:41:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 20:41:20 1984
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>	'misbegotten'-   are you referred to as 'begotten'?
>	'miscegenation'- when two people of the same skin have sex, do we
>			usually say that they are 'cegenating'?

"Begotten" may not be in common use, but it still exists, perhaps kept alive
by the Biblical references to an "only-begotten Son".  And it has a 
corresponding verb form "beget".

As for "miscegenation", the prefix is not "mis-", but "misce-", and the whole
word literally means "mixed begetting".
-- 
				Andy Behrens
				East Thetford, Vermont
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