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I think we should remind ourselves here that the Oxford Complete Dictionary, (all 20 volumes if it), is not a prescriptive “this is how you must use it”, publication, but rather a publication describing how words have been previously used. The original editors just asked the public to submit words and give reference to previously published usage … Read more
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 02:01:00AM +0100, Helen Larson wrote: > Predate doesn’t have a hyphen, ’tis a perfectly good word in the > sense of antedate. Ask the Oxford. Predate as in “Sharks predate > on small fish” is not a good word and gets used by people who think > it’s derived from … Read more
Following our statements on BIRDING-AUS regarding the dark morph Little Egret on the Gold Coast, Nikolas Haass and I received the email below from Mick Roderick drawing our attention to another dark Egret/Heron. This bird is near Newcastle in NSW and is almost totally black including the bill but the legs are yellow. Although the … Read more
Does predating incentivate adaptive behaviour in organisms? On 27/08/2011, at 11:01 AM, Helen Larson wrote: > Predate doesn’t have a hyphen, ’tis a perfectly good word in the > sense of > antedate. Ask the Oxford. > Predate as in “Sharks predate on small fish” is not a good word and > gets used by … Read more