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[Peter Duncanson]

On 17 May 2005 03:49:34 GMT, peter@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan)
wrote:

[Evan Kirshenbaum]

"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> writes:

[Evan Kirshenbaum]

"eromlignod" <eromlignod@aol.com> writes:

[R J Valentine]

On Tue, 17 May 2005 09:55:37 -0700 Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

} "Don Phillipson" <d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> writes:
}
}> <braininvat@hotmail.com> wrote in message
}> news:1116271940.760971.291050@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
}>> Hi
}>>
}>> -a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
}>> mean? Examples are:
}>>
}>> babe-a-licious
}>> font-a-licious
}>
}> You have been deceived. This is a recent coinage meaning "Please
}> buy our goods, records, junk food" etc. etc.
}
} "Recent" in the sense of "not very". The oldest such trademark in the
} US is for "so-da-licious", which has a "first use in commerce" date of
} 1922. "Dari-licious" is 1962. "'Bee-licious' honey", 1964.
} "C-licious" (vitamins), 1978. "Sea-licious" (frozen lobster), 1978.
} "Crispy-lishus", 1978. "Apple-licious", 1980.
}
} It is, indeed, a productive suffix.

Heck, my phone number has been (301) PRO-LIF-a-licious for lo these
thirty-some years. One number ahead of PRO-LIFE.

--
R. J. Valentine <mailto:rj@theWorld.com>

[Oliver Cromm]

* Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:

[Peter Moylan]

R H Draney turpitued:

[Skitt]

Matthew Powell wrote:

[Matthew Powell]

In article <3eu6qnF512d7U1@individual.net>,
"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[Matthew Powell]

In article <3eu6qnF512d7U1@individual.net>,
"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[Matthew Powell]

In article <YcCdnYIESvh_ZhbfRVn-iA@comcast.com>,
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> wrote:

[Mike Lyle]

Matthew Powell wrote:

[Opus the Penguin]

Matthew Powell <spam@atom.net> wrote:

[Steve Hayes]

On 19 May 2005 21:03:25 GMT, Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin@gmail.com>
wrote: