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I don't think the fact that some words can be formed that way is a good guide to whether other formations are words or not. Do you think "cookings" is a word?
by NovemberWhiskey 5y ago
I don't think the fact that some words can be formed that way is a good guide to whether other formations are words or not.
Do you think "cookings" is a word? It would be "things that have been cooked" I suppose, on that basis. I would say if it's a word it's one I've never heard before.
On the other hand, "cuttings" is clearly a word in common usage in horticulture.
- jameshart 5y agoMy point is more that it sits in roughly the same semantic space as ‘lessons’ and ‘learnings’, yet there seems to be room for nuanced differences of meaning. Yet I don’t see people object to ‘teachings’ on the basis that we already have the word ‘lessons’.