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From: peasthope@shaw.ca
To: categories@mta.ca
Cc: peasthope@shaw.ca
Subject: Terminology; categorical versus categorial.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:39:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1T9zy7-0007VB-Fg@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)

Apologies in case this story is in the archive.  I failed to find it.

According to online dictionaries, categorical and categorial can be 
synonyms.  Almost everyone seems to prefer categorical whereas 
categorial comes from the simple rule of replacing the last vowel of 
the noun with "ial".

So, is the preference for categorical just an inheritance from early 
authors?  Is there a stronger reason to use it?  Is the explanation 
in the archive?

Thanks,            ... Peter E.



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             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-06 18:39 peasthope [this message]
2012-09-07 15:12 ` Michael Barr
2012-09-07 15:39 ` Graham White
2012-09-07 21:48   ` Charles Wells
2012-09-07 16:18 ` Robert Seely
2012-09-07 17:58 ` Robert Dawson
2012-09-07 19:57 ` Peter Selinger
2012-09-07 17:35 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-09-07 23:37 ` Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine
2012-09-08  2:08 Fred E.J. Linton
2012-09-08  6:17 Fred E.J. Linton

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