Re: "install" as a noun?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com>]

"Brierley, Sean" wrote:
> >
> Ok. I do this, using "lets you" instead of "allows you to," for example.
> However, ummm, how is the word "installation" Latinate when "install" is
> not? 

I was thinking of the common habit of adding "tion" to the end of a
noun, especially when there is no good reason to do so. However,
probably I should have said "Romanate" rather than "Latinate," since the
habit is probably due as much to the influence of French as to Latin.

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