Date:  Fri, 2 Jan 1998 12:35:27 -0500
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Deletia (Was Re: Dilbert for WOTY?)

At 01:56 AM 1/2/98 EST, you (GarethB2 <GarethB2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>) wrote:
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>[deletia]
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Is this a latinism indicating that there was "deleted wording" here? How is
it formed, I mean morphologically? (Not being sarcastic here, just honestly
curious.) I know the philological/editorial term "delenda" (things to be
deleted; cf. memoranda "things to be remembered"), but not "deletia."

Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu