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7 Comments

  1. MKR said,

    January 4, 2009 @ 10:18 pm

    Colloquialate?

  2. MKR said,

    January 4, 2009 @ 10:20 pm

    Oh wow, it's already a word. I feel awfully silly now.

    :(

  3. Aaron Davies said,

    January 5, 2009 @ 8:53 am

    shirley that should be "connexion" in that usage…

  4. Sili said,

    January 5, 2009 @ 10:46 am

    I thought "connexion" was peculiar to Riemannian geometry.

    It's a snowly day here.

  5. John Cowan said,

    January 5, 2009 @ 8:16 pm

    "Connexion" is the official OED spelling, which all OED entries and ISO standards (but hardly anyone else, these days) must use.

  6. Aaron Davies said,

    January 6, 2009 @ 7:47 am

    my point, in case someone's missed it (i can't really tell) is that, at least IME, "in this connection"/"in which connection" is a british usage.

  7. Megan said,

    January 8, 2009 @ 10:36 am

    Payack's 1,000,000th English word claim does show "Ignorance of Linguistics".

    I have it on good authority (T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics) that there are 80 billion words that aren't listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. To be fair, he doesn't say they're all English words, but the examples he gives appear to be. He seems like a trustworthy guy, so I haven't checked whether the his claims are true.

    http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001380.html

    Note for the humour impaired: this comment isn't serious. :)

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