Date:    Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:32:43 -0500
<br>From:    Beverly Flanigan  FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: "doubled perfect"
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<br>    'Side trac(k)ted' _may_ arise from a confusion of 'track' and 'tract';
<br>    thus the latter becomes regular past/p.p. 'tracted.'  Admittedly, I
<br>    haven't heard 'tract' used as a verb, but we had a former colleague (no
<br>    names) who said and wrote 'tract' for our dual-track linguistics
<br>    program: thus, we have a theoretical tract and an applied tract.
<br>    Anyone else ever encounter this?!
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