Sunday, March 18

Iterate: v. to do (something) over again or repeatedly.

Reiterate: v. to say or do again or repeatedly.

Anyone care to explain why someone invented the word "reiterate" when iterate seems to mean reiterate already?

3 comments:

W.L.Platt said...

Irony. Whoever coined reiterate wanted to iterate again. The world must love overstatement, as you never hear anyone use iterate. Perhaps it is the antithesis of "literate."

Sabrina said...

I never realized that before. Leave it to you to make such an observation.

alisquire said...

Sort of like 'dethaw' and 'irregardless'.