On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Roger Hui wrote:
The recent discussion on names reminds me of an observation known to old-time APLers: Ravel, the name of the monad , , means the same as unravel. I wonder if there are other English words having that property? That is, x where x and un-x (or dis-x etc.) mean the same. As far as I am aware, "hevelled" is not an English word, but if it sounds like it should mean the same as "dishevelled". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the expression "not unseldom" occurs in book II, Chapter V, misused to mean "not rarely", according to the OED.
It has been used before Austen several times by some great writers, Burton, for example.
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