predate = dating from before predate = preying upon
Aren’t the same word, they are separate words that happen to be spelt the same. They are clearly distinguished by the stress
pre’date vs ‘predate
John Leonard
On 26 August 2011 14:36, Andrew Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:10:48AM -0700, David James wrote: >> ps, if you don’t understand me, please research the meaning of “predate” > > Come on, “predate” meaning prey has been in use for over half a century > and is common in ornithological literure. If I tell you use of the > homonym “date” to refer to the fruit of the palm predates its use to > refer to time, are you going to use “date” only to refer to the fruit > of the palm? > > Andrew > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== >
