IMIPOLEX

[Samuel Moyer]

>
> 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%.


I wanted to get the OED, but it is a bit expensive... but I found a way to
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will check it out for the free OED.  Sam