amateur » amature

Classification: English

The prefix ‘a’ could come across as a negation, so ‘amature’ is ‘not mature.’

| link | entered by Sravana Reddy, 2005/06/26 |

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    Commentary by JA , 2005/10/05 at 1:45 pm

    Amature does seem reasonable by the logic in the explanation, but I suspect it’s actually just a phoenetic spelling.

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