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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
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Subject: Re: pooh-pooh (Re: odd definitions)
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 11:26:31 EST
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> > > pooh'-pooh'  A reduplication of pooh.

> "Reduplication" is a process of great importance in some languages and not

Just for fun ...

Webster's 9th Collegiate (I know, it's awful, but it's right
here, right now :-) ) defines the prefix "re-" as ":again :anew"

It defines duplication as "copying or repeating" (this is what
it boils down to after it sends you to look up duplicate)

so,
re + duplication = again copying

which obviously means there must be three or more, right :-) !!
(original, first copy, reduplicated (3rd+) copy)

I guess reduplication joins the ranks of words that don't mean
what they say.

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