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Today's Wikipedia rabbithole brought me to interesting linguistic rebracketings:

'Outrage' from the French 'outre', originally meaning beyond [what is acceptable] transformed from outr-age to out-rage.
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Although 'alcoholic' derives from 'alcohol' and '-ic', we have retained the 'hol' for modern constructions like 'workaholic'.

'Cybernetics' affixed '-etics' to 'cybern', but we picked up 'cyber' as a prefix instead. I kind of like thinking about being in cybernspace.

#words #Wikipedia #linguistics
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I hadn't heard of it! Sounds up my alley.
In response to Kat Reed.
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