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"prepone" has been coined independently quite a lot of times in the history of English. It just so happens that it stuck around when the Indians did it.
by qart 5y ago
"prepone" has been coined independently quite a lot of times in the history of English. It just so happens that it stuck around when the Indians did it.
- maartenscholl 5y agoIn Google's Book Ngram Viewer, prepone shows up in a higher percentage of texts in the early 1800s than in text from the past two decades. However, I don't know how accurate the corpus is for those old texts.
- tokai 5y agoIf you look through the documents from that period it looks like they are a mix of words split over lines, non-english words, and ORC errors. G'Ngrams is very unreliable when it comes to the oldest materials. One clue to that is how the occurrence goes from max to min and back again in less than a decade.
- JackFr 5y ago'antepone' seems to have the advantage for the latter half of the 19th century and then around 1965 'prepone' blows it away. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=prepone%2C+antepone&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cprepone%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cantepone%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=prepone%2C+ant...
- Telemakhos 5y agoAnd yet preposition has long been a word.
- dmingod666 5y agoWith it's usefulness it's a surprise it's not picked up as an actual word. Pre production post production. Pre release post release. Prepone, postpone.