Dragaera

Pararectal - A real word?

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Wed Sep 22 19:09:03 PDT 2004

David Silberstein says

	>>>

I've sort of given up hope on "ambiguifies", which caused more of a
ruckus, and even inspired doggerel, but seems to have not had legs.

 <<<<<


Try "ambiguate". Linguists have been using "disambiguate" for a long
time. It earns my vote as one of the ugliest words I know, but it is
absolutely too useful (at least in my professional language) to do
without.


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