IMIPOLEX

[David Morris]

Don't have access to OED (damn), but if "imi" isn't _really_ a prefix, what is
it?  If it's not really a part of speech, how can it have other than an
imagined "function?"  "Imigrate" doesn't imply replication, does it?

"Im," though, is a prefix, the one used in both "imitate" and "imigrate."

David Morris

> > calbert wrote:
> >
> > If this is indeed a "free day", how about this in support of MalignD?
> >
> > Why is it IMI-polex?
> >
> > Spent a little time with the OED over that yesterday.......there is a
> > little of the obvious with a dash of the unlikely......
> >
> > Imi isn't really a prefix, but functions a little like one. It's presence
> > implies "replication" as in "imi-tate", and assuming that the OED is
> > exhaustive with respect to the possible uses, the correspondence is
> > nearly 100%.



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