Title : 
Turning the disgruntled linguist into a gruntled one
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Faculty of Agriculture, P. O. Box 12, Rehovot, Israel
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Sometimes the best way to learn more about a subject is to poke fun at it. The English language is no exception, and this article parodies the way in which antonyms are created. Antonyms are often formed by attaching a negative prefix (un, dis, de, in) to a word-root. Yet some original word-roots have been lost, resulting in an antonym for which no word-root exists.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Calendars; Economics; Educational institutions; Presses; Publishing; Recycling; Turning;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TPC.1982.6447781