Is this actually a word?
Dec. 8th, 2022 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesDHL just sent me an email saying that my parcel is at their "Sortation facility"
Are they making words up, or does that useless alternative to "sorting" actually exist in a dictionary somewhere?
Later - apparently it is, and dates from the 19th century - see the comments. Which once and for all proves that the Victorians could sometimes be idiots...
Are they making words up, or does that useless alternative to "sorting" actually exist in a dictionary somewhere?
Later - apparently it is, and dates from the 19th century - see the comments. Which once and for all proves that the Victorians could sometimes be idiots...
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Date: 2022-12-09 12:23 pm (UTC)And I just checked the 2nd. edition OED. First citation 1844, most recent 1899.
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