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Chris -- 2018-04-11

#1 2017-04-08 12:09:21

DavidTuggy
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correspondents < correspondence

Another -nts / -nce example, but one which some have pretty clearly reanalyzed eggcornishly, so that a correspondent is a piece of correspondence (the last two examples show that, it seems to me).

That does not include the extensive correspondents with people across the country over that decade. I received wonderful letters

Through his incessant labors and voluminous publications, through his extensive correspondents with scientists both in France and abroad, and through …

The extensive correspondents between Jane and Cassandra are in my opinion, far more useful.

he had left a correspondent on the desk, one which had seemed to amuse him greatly when I first entered the room.


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