> REGIONAL NOTES: In the 19th century, the vibrant energy of American
English
> appeared in the use of Latin affixes to create jocular pseudo-Latin
> "learned" words. There is a precedent for this in the language of
> Shakespeare, whose plays contain scores of made-up Latinate words.
> Midwestern and Western U.S. absquatulate has a prefix ab-, "away from,"
and
> a suffix -ate, "to act upon in a specified manner," affixed to a
nonexistent
> base form -squatul-, probably suggested by squat. Hence the whimsical
> absquatulate, "to squat away from."
Hmm. Does this mean we are just trying to sound learned, like those 19th
century "jocular pseudo-Latin" scholars?
I love the word, although using it in a sentence and making it seem normal
is a challenge.
Judith
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