Re: More "divided by a common language" stuff
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:26 am
This is a total aside. Still, it interests me. I read that word "micturation" and it didn't feel right. Now, don't get me wrong, I have hardly ever come across the word "micturate" either, so I'm not being smug about this. I just find it interesting, is all.DrPhill wrote:Perhaps the distinction is that you are concentrating on the micturation
It turns out that the word that all of this comes from is "micturition". This is a word which I have come across. The OED lists "micturate" as an "incorrect" back-formation from "micturition". It's incorrect for three reasons: it's a verb formed from a word which can only properly be a noun; it uses an 'a' when that isn't in the Latin root; and the OED says that "the sense is incorrect as well as the form". This last error is because the word "micturition" does not mean the act of making water, but rather the desire to make water, often in the sense of a medical condition.
The OED doesn't list "micturation" at all, even in passing.
Aside over. Carry on.