[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Irredeemable
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Tue Jul 31 23:47:40 EDT 2012
[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2012/07/30 at 16:02 -0400]
Hi:
>The words Irredeemable and friends (irredeemability, irredeemableness
>etc) should not use the ed sign:
The same would be true, of course, for "irreducible" and friends. What,
however, about "irredenta"? For the curious, an "irredenta" is a territory
which belongs, either historically or ethnically, to one coutnry but is
governed by another.
Irredenta, by the way, also has related words. An "irredentist", for example,
is one who believes that the governing country should mind its own business and
leave the affairs of the territory up to those who either historicaly or
ethnically own the territory.
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