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Subject: Re: [MFLR] Miles Standish
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:55:09 -0500
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It's remarkably easy to write "surruptiously" for "surreptitiously."
Google today returned 448 uses of "surruptiously" and 135 uses of
"surruptious"--none of them archaic, but all simply mistaken.

ph
New York

On Dec 11, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Kathy Fenton wrote:

> Yes, THAT one I knew! And "surreptitiously" makes sense in the
> context, so
> perhaps "surruptiously" is some sort of archaic form of it (I say
> perhaps
> it's archaic because if it was in the will of Myles Standish, it's
> probably
> not a new word...so it being a new word is probably not why I can't
> find it
> in my dictionary...)??
>
> Since the implication has already been put out there that it might
> be a word
> one would question, and it doesn't seem to be in the dictionary, it
> would
> just be nice to know for sure what it means as well. :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kathy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GMF" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [MFLR] Miles Standish
>
>
>> Surreptitiously is a word and I surmise my illustrious forebear may
>> have
>> misspelled it. It means secretly.
>>
>>
>> GMF
>> A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth
>> motorshow full
>> of potential, but temporarily inactive. -Anthony Burgess
>>
>>
>> -- "Kathy Fenton" <> wrote:
>> Are you sure "surruptiously" is a word? And if so, what does it
>> mean?
>> It's
>> not in my unabridged dictionary...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kathy
>>
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