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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by pessimizer on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:22PM (#36266604)
Aside: "bated" breath. It's one of those anachronistic words that's only survived by hiding in an idiom.
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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by klysm on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:07AM (#36267502)
I was thinking about words like this the other day - words that only occur in regular usage within a phrase. Such words sound odd when they aren’t used in their phrase. Of course I can’t think of any examples right now though
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Re:NixOS for the Impatient by antonvs on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:09AM (#36267511)
It's an abbreviation of "abated", though, which is still in use.
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