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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Disoriented
Message-ID: <502@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 16:24:52 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.502
Posted: Mon Mar 11 16:24:52 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: 

(Why was the thing I'm following up in net.flame?)

I always liked this item, which was in the English Usage section
of the New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac of 1970.  Actually, it's been
a while since I saw it, and I may be reversing their recommendations.

Anyway...

> INTERPRETIVE is preferred to INTERPRETATIVE.  PREVENTATIVE
> is preferred to PREVENTIVE.  And don't ask silly questions.

Mark Brader