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Now there's one you don't see every day.

From a press release: "The India-Pakistan one-day international that was planned as a celebration of the BCCI's platinum jubilee has been preponed by a day to November 13."

Makes perfect sense, means exactly what it appears to. Isn't in my spellchecker.

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Date: 2004-09-02 04:01 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aunty_marion
I've seen it before in a discussion (newspaper?) on how the Indians and others are adapting the English language. It is, obviously, a back-formation from postponed.

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Date: 2004-09-02 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bardling.livejournal.com
Heh. I *like* new word inventions like that! :)

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Date: 2004-09-02 06:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shannachie.livejournal.com
Thank you for a new word!

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Date: 2004-09-02 06:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com
Neat. Has a sharper meaning than the usual "rescheduled."
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Date: 2004-09-02 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gas-king.livejournal.com
It would with your typing!!!

(sorry, couldn't resist - like shooting fish in a barrel... twice... with an elephant gun... at point blank range...)

gk

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Date: 2004-09-03 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plaid-dragon.livejournal.com
It sounds a bit clumsy to me, but that may be because it *is* a forced back-construction, and a new word.

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Date: 2004-09-03 02:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] occams_pyramid
prepone /pri:pUn/
v.t.L20. [f. PRE- after postpone.]
Bring forward to an earlier date or time.

New Shorter OED

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Date: 2004-09-03 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plaid-dragon.livejournal.com
Ah, okay. I'd run it through a different dictionary and it wasn't in there.

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