{"id":129,"date":"2003-10-20T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/20\/disaggregation\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T22:09:06","slug":"disaggregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/10\/20\/disaggregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaggregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a164'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/home\/home?wid=10&amp;func=viewSubmission&amp;sid=121\">Disaggregation<\/a> is an unlovely word.  I suggest the more proper, elegant and beautiful &#8220;abgregation&#8221;.  O (thou sayest) wherefore?  Well &#8220;aggregation&#8221;, of course, is &#8220;ad&#8221; [into] + &#8220;greg&#8221; [herd].  We get egregious [apart from the common herd] from the same root, and gregarious [herdy]&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyways why pile on the prefixes?  Just replace &#8220;ad&#8221; with &#8220;ab&#8221; and you get the notion of unbundling.  This usage is smiled upon by no less an authority than Bailey, tho admittedly the OED rather superciliously claims that <i>abgregation<\/i> was &#8220;App. never used&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaggregation is an unlovely word. I suggest the more proper, elegant and beautiful &#8220;abgregation&#8221;. O (thou sayest) wherefore? Well &#8220;aggregation&#8221;, of course, is &#8220;ad&#8221; [into] + &#8220;greg&#8221; [herd]. We get egregious [apart from the common herd] from the same root, and gregarious [herdy]&#8230; Anyways why pile on the prefixes? Just replace &#8220;ad&#8221; with &#8220;ab&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}