BBC News – Killer plant ‘eats’ great tit at Somerset nursery

On 26/08/2011 3:02 PM, John Leonard wrote: > 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

I would use a hyphen.

I wonder if “Language Log” will pick up this discussion.

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