Internet word for the day: assuge

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Today's Internet Word for the Day is "assuge." "Assuge" is used to mean "assume," "assure," "assess," or (especially) "assuage." The past participle "assuged" serves as a magnet for those who seek "assuged homed roans."
Can you say it? "Assuge."
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[nq:1]Today's Internet Word for the Day is "assuge." "Assuge" is used to mean "assume," "assure," "assess," or (especially) "assuage." The past participle "assuged" serves as a magnet for those who seek "assuged homed roans." Can you say it? "Assuge."[/nq]
I wanted to say, "Sure I can, now that I've looked it up", but I haven't found it in any dictionary, including Merriam-Webster's Unabridged , the Oxford English Dictionary , and the more modern New Shorter Oxford and Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate .
I get a few hits on "assuge" at Google Groups, but the ones I looked at all look like typos, mostly for "assuage" but some for "assure".
Onelook.com says "Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word assuge". It gives the same response in each of three categories.
I don't think there's any such word as "assuge", except in the sense sometimes appealed to that a word needs only to be used once, either correctly or incorrectly, to be considered an English word.
[nq:1]Information courtesy of Google and the World Wide Web.[/nq]
Please give a link to a specific place that you think uses "assuge" in a way that is clearly not a typo.

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"A swage" is English and so is "assuage". The original poster though is talking about something called "Internet English". I believe that this is, when it refers to spelling, spelling that is usually considered incorrect in wider use but is nevertheless used on the internet. He seeks examples from the ultimate internet source: Google Corporation.

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[nq:2]. . . Please give a link to a specific place that you think uses "assuge" in a way that is clearly not a typo.[/nq]
[nq:1]"A swage" is English and so is "assuage". The original poster though is talking about something called "Internet English". I ... in wider use but is nevertheless used on the internet. He seeks examples from the ultimate internet source: Google Corporation.[/nq]
I forgot to say that one or two references use "assuge" to mean "assail" or "beseige." In those cases and when it means "assess" it's not just a misspelling. It's a word that can mean anything the user wants it to mean.
Despite that, and despite my original post, and on reflection, I don't really think "assuge" is catching on. It's mostly a misspelling. "Serie," however, the assumed (or perhaps "assuged") singular of "series," used regularly in that form in some other languages, does seem to be gaining currency in international English.

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[nq:2]"A swage" is English and so is "assuage". The original ... He seeks examples from the ultimate internet source: Google Corporation.[/nq]
[nq:1]I forgot to say that one or two references use "assuge" to mean "assail" or "beseige." In those cases and ... of "series," used regularly in that form in some other languages, does seem to be gaining currency in international English.[/nq]
By the way, I think I learned the word "assuaged" from a song lyric by one Karl Friedrich Herrosee! Forty years ago in the American Midwest high-school sopranos used to choose Beethoven's "Ich liebe dich" ("Zärtliche Liebe") as a contest entry. I wasn't a soprano, but I liked some sopranos.

Anyway the lyrics for the Beethoven, a poem by this Herrosee, were for some reason always in English translation and included "You gave my aching heart surcease; your tears assuaged my sorrow, assuaged my sorrow. . . ." I think I may have heard it at a wedding, too. I'm surprised that there seems to be no trace of that translation on the Web.

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[nq:2]"A swage" is English and so is "assuage". The original ... He seeks examples from the ultimate internet source: Google Corporation.[/nq]
[nq:1]I forgot to say that one or two references use "assuge" to mean "assail" or "beseige." In those cases and ... of "series," used regularly in that form in some other languages, does seem to be gaining currency in international English.[/nq]
Probably popular among **** sapien people.

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[nq:1]Today's Internet Word for the Day is "assuge." "Assuge" is used to mean "assume," "assure," "assess," or (especially) "assuage." The past participle "assuged" serves as a magnet for those who seek "assuged homed roans."[/nq]
What is the world coming to?
[nq:1]Can you say it?[/nq]
"As huge dome drones?" Eh? Wossat, then?
If I'd seen it without explanation I might have assumed that assuged meant "with added sugar" ... as in "one white coffe without, and one assuged." though I suppose a double 'g' is more likely there?

By happy coincidence "assuaged" means roughly the same ... literally "made sweet(er)". From the Latin /suavis/, ==sweet. (Which the NSOED, somewhat surprisingly, does not think is the root for sugar.)

Cheers,
Daniel.

The root for sugar is, of course, /beta vulgaris/, the sugar beet.

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"Assured home loans." Although the three words appear together, the folks who made the website aren't necessarily expecting anyone to use them together. They post a list of likely misspellings of each of the three words "assured," "home," and "loans," in the hope that someone looking for an "assured home loan" will misspell one or more of the words and fall into their clutches.

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