In our previous episode at 01:52 PM 8/19/03, pddb at demesne.com wrote: >I cheated and Googled for it. There are quite a lot of hits for >"ambiguate," mostly very recent. I imagine it's a back-formation >from "disambiguate", as David suggested. I have to confess that >when "disambiguate" first crossed my path I was delighted to see >it; it did seem to fill a much UNneeded gap. "Disambiguate" is in AHD3 and MW10 dating from 1963; neither has "ambiguate." However, there are newer editions of both dictionaries (that I don't own yet), so it might have made it into the latest edition. (My first thought when I read that was "What kind of gap does the UN need?") -- Beth Friedman / bjf at wavefront.com There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.