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curprev 22:0822:08, 28 August 2025 Remsense talk contribs 11,856 bytes −41 Undid revision 1307344628 by 2600:1005:a022:9900:7d03:67cd:cd2a:aa34 (talk) undo Tag: Undo

curprev 15:5115:51, 27 August 2025 81.2.123.64 talk 11,897 bytes −3 →River names: simplify – less ungainly undo

curprev 02:5202:52, 23 August 2025 2600:1005:a022:9900:7d03:67cd:cd2a:aa34 talk 11,900 bytes +41 kjrojepdoajsf undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

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curprev 13:4013:40, 14 May 2025 ATgeir talk contribs 11,865 bytes −204 →In English: Confusing or incorrect example removed. it sounds almost as if it was back-formed from a Greek word. undo

curprev 03:0903:09, 30 October 2024 2601:2c7:467f:e710:46df:a7dd:5341:d8f4 talk 12,069 bytes +20 →In English: Mantle definitely exists as a word, it just doesn't mean anything like "assemble something" undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 14:3814:38, 24 September 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,049 bytes −19 Precision: "inflection" wasn't the right word in the given context. undo
curprev 13:2613:26, 24 September 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,068 bytes +26 Corrected terminology. undo
curprev 13:2213:22, 24 September 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,042 bytes −33 Concision. undo
curprev 13:1913:19, 24 September 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,075 bytes +5 Remedied a missing word omitted from the 4 May 2022 edit. undo

curprev 15:5215:52, 22 September 2024 GreenC bot talk contribs 12,070 bytes +3 Reformat 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:USURPURL and JUDI batch #18 undo

curprev 12:5012:50, 11 August 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,067 bytes −1 →Similar phenomena: Valid correction of punctuation, but essentially a null edit to note that my immediatly prior edit mistakenly said "the inflection article ... doesn't account for inflection (i.e., not back-formation) via removal, e.g., from "lead" to "led". In fact, the inflection article does account for aphony -- a point that I'd missed until subsequently re-reading the inflection article. undo
curprev 12:3112:31, 11 August 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,068 bytes −25 Undid revision 1239760823 by William012343210 (talk)Nope; derivation is the wrong word as it involves forming a new word from an existing word by ADDING a prefix or suffix versus, which involves MODIFYING a word to differ its grammatical categoy. Don't rely on the inflection article, which doesn't account for inflection (i.e., not back-formation) via removal, e.g., from "lead" to "led". undo Tag: Undo
curprev 10:5810:58, 11 August 2024 William012343210 talk contribs m 12,093 bytes +25 Undid revision 1238588318 by Kent Dominic (talk) (inflection only involves grammatical change, and derivation involves the change of word class which usually happen to back-formation too) undo Tags: Undo Reverted

curprev 17:3517:35, 4 August 2024 Kent Dominic talk contribs 12,068 bytes −25 Undid revision 1238536452 by William012343210 (talk)Nope. undo Tags: Undo Reverted
curprev 11:5011:50, 4 August 2024 William012343210 talk contribs m 12,093 bytes +25 inflection to derivation undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 20:5520:55, 24 July 2024 Egidio24 talk contribs m 12,068 bytes −11 v2.05 - Fix errors for CW project (Link equal to linktext) undo Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 13:5613:56, 4 July 2024 Mannikir talk contribs 12,079 bytes +1 →River names undo
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curprev 03:1403:14, 8 April 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 11,177 bytes −4 Altered title. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Whoop whoop pull up | #UCB_webform 860/2311 undo

curprev 10:2010:20, 20 February 2024 Jonathan Markoff talk contribs 11,181 bytes +752 No edit summary undo

curprev 00:1100:11, 7 November 2023 SparklyNights talk contribs 10,429 bytes +228 →In English: All of these need sources. undo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 11:2411:24, 26 September 2023 216.168.113.98 talk 10,201 bytes +341 →In English: added prepone ~~~~ undo

curprev 19:0319:03, 2 September 2023 IBugOne talk contribs 9,860 bytes +100 →In English: Add "babysit", "spelunk" and "donate" to examples undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 17:0517:05, 29 September 2022 HeyElliott talk contribs 9,760 bytes −31 Changing short description from "Creating a word by removing actual or supposed affixes, such as "snark" from "snarky"" to "Creating a word by removing actual or supposed affixes" undo Tag: Shortdesc helper
curprev 17:0417:04, 29 September 2022 HeyElliott talk contribs 9,791 bytes +171 Clean up/copyedit undo Tag: Visual edit
curprev 12:0212:02, 29 September 2022 14.161.18.176 talk 9,620 bytes +207 →In English undo
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curprev 18:2418:24, 1 September 2022 GreenC bot talk contribs 9,150 bytes +154 Rescued 1 archive link. Wayback Medic 2.5 undo

curprev 15:0015:00, 4 May 2022 Kent Dominic talk contribs m 8,996 bytes +1 Inserted an omitted period. undo
curprev 14:5914:59, 4 May 2022 Kent Dominic talk contribs 8,995 bytes −1 Short description correction of slippery slope: Contrary to Merriam-Webster (which claims "kempt' was coined in 1929), "kempt" is attested from late 14c. and pre-dated "unkempt" attested from 1570s. According to etymoline.com, "kempt" indeed was rarely used after c. 1500, and "any modern use probably is a whimsical back-formation from unkempt." undo
curprev 14:4414:44, 4 May 2022 Kent Dominic talk contribs 8,996 bytes +189 1.) Corrected the lede definition to accord with the cited reference as well as with OED (cite not included since OED misleadingly invokes "looks as though it is derivative" verbiage rather than properly referring to inflection), which IDs a back-formation as a word, not a lexeme as had been mis-ID'd in the article; (2) added substitution of affixes to account for changes such as "smarms" (attested since 1914) from "smarmy". undo
curprev 00:1400:14, 4 May 2022 Rainecko talk contribs 8,807 bytes −6 No edit summary undo

curprev 11:1411:14, 30 January 2022 Qwerfjkl (bot) talk contribs m 8,813 bytes 0 Capitalising short description "creating a word by removing actual or supposed affixes, such as "kempt" from "unkempt"" per WP:SDFORMAT (via Bandersnatch) undo

curprev 18:4318:43, 28 October 2021 Ferien talk contribs m 8,813 bytes −1 Reverted edits by 63.221.140.241 (talk): editing tests (HG) (3.4.10) undo Tag: Rollback
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curprev 14:1114:11, 28 July 2021 Marisauna talk contribs m 8,789 bytes +2 →In English undo
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curprev 13:4513:45, 4 May 2021 LuK3 talk contribs 8,681 bytes +606 Restored revision 1018120705 by Megaman en m (talk): Rvv undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
curprev 13:4513:45, 4 May 2021 176.59.17.194 talk 8,075 bytes −606 No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted references removed Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

curprev 11:1111:11, 16 April 2021 Megaman en m talk contribs 8,681 bytes −55 Reverting edit(s) by Theo.phonchana (talk) to rev. 997307369 by Monkbot: Reverting good faith edits (not an improvement, dead wikilink, the extra specification on the suffix's form is not needed here.) (RW 16.1) undo Tags: RW Undo
curprev 10:5310:53, 16 April 2021 Theo.phonchana talk contribs 8,736 bytes +55 No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 22:4622:46, 30 December 2020 Monkbot talk contribs m 8,681 bytes +2 Task 18 (cosmetic): eval 5 templates: hyphenate params (2×); undo Tag: AWB

curprev 07:1807:18, 10 December 2020 Californiarockss talk contribs 8,679 bytes +845 Added a section about other languages. undo

curprev 13:5513:55, 21 November 2020 Nardog talk contribs 7,834 bytes −467 Reverted 2 edits by Alleged editor (talk): Not a reliable source - especially for such an extraordinary claim - see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 306#etymonline undo Tags: Twinkle Undo

curprev 17:3517:35, 7 November 2020 Alleged editor talk contribs 8,301 bytes −30 →In English: Unreliable information. See etymonline's entry: https://www.etymonline.com/word/edit#etymonline_v_32070 undo Tag: Reverted

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