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3 months ago arby said:

Is it also responsible for the adorable Britlish verb burgle?

about 1 year ago whichbe said:

A new word produced by analogy when people remove a supposed affix from the perceived stem of a word; the verb peddle was created in English when people began removing the supposed affix –ar from the noun peddlar.

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