Talk:administrate

I always thought that administrate was the incorrect verb form for administration or administrator with the correct one beeing administer.


 * http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231069898&id=L2ChiO2yEZ0C&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=administrate&sig=RZ15GlNR-zBnHR71ZO3UK7tLdlA --Connel MacKenzie 07:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I likewise thought it incorrect, but rather than just rant I did a bit of research. It turns out that yes, "administer" well predates "administrate", but it's not new, dating back to the mid 16th century.
 * Mirriam Webster asserts that its etymology was directly from Latin in the 1650's, and that was probably true back then, but I suspect it more likely falls into the category of a recurrent neologism that keeps getting re-invented and squashed from time to time: people who've never heard the term before quite happily make it up for themselves after hearing "administration" or "administrator".
 * This being the age of the internet, however, I suspect it's not going to get squashed this time because the Netizenary are mainly young and thus not influenced or "corrected" by older folk. 06:06, 18 September 2014 (UTC)