Date:    Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:23:02 -0600
<br>From:    Joan Houston Hall  jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Japan(ese)
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<br>There's an interesting article on the use of place names in the form
<br>attributive noun + noun (Japan alps) rather than derivative adj + noun
<br>(Japanese Alps) in the 1986 issue of _Dictionaries_.  It's by James E.
<br>Iannucci, and is titled "Ghost Adjectives in Dictionaries."
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