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Re: TT-3: shooting drawers with pencils and pawns (ADA) (fwd)
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Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:55 PM +1000
From: nitrogen14@australia.edu
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> 'rodlet'
> VN uses the suffix -let a lot to coin words of his own.
A correction to my own posting: 'rodlet' is not VN's coinage,
as I had assumed; the OED lists it, with two quotations from
1877 and 1883.
--Peter Hayes
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:55 PM +1000
From: nitrogen14@australia.edu
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> 'rodlet'
> VN uses the suffix -let a lot to coin words of his own.
A correction to my own posting: 'rodlet' is not VN's coinage,
as I had assumed; the OED lists it, with two quotations from
1877 and 1883.
--Peter Hayes
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L