Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 07:05:18 -0400

From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA

Subject: Re: new verb?



Heard on a local piedmont, North Carolina, TV station, concerning the

feelings of an 81-year-old man about the fact that Hurricane Fran had blown

the steeple off a Wilmington, NC, baptist church: "He had seen all of his

children baptized in that church, and his wife was funeralized there as

well." Is this a new usage? Do you suppose he and the now-deceased wife were

nuptialized in that church, too?



well, my dad and brother are funeral directors, and i've never heard

this (or at least not steadily enough to make an impression).



my favorite funerary word is "predecease". people don't decease, but

they do predecease. weird.



lynne



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