Ruthie reasons analogically

The One Big Happy from January 23rd: Ruthie reasons analogically, but from the morphological point of view, inaccurately. If paralegal is para + legal and the para- contributes a element of meaning roughly ‘sort of, but not real’, then parakeet must be para + keet ‘a sort of, but not real, keet’, whatever a keet … Continue reading Ruthie reasons analogically