• oneiros@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Along these lines, I recently learned:

    Painstakingly is pains + takingly (as in “took great pains”), not pain + stakingly.

    Helicopter is helico + pter (“spiral wing”), not heli + copter.

    In linguistics, this phenomenon is called rebracketing.