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Post #788619 by StolenIdols on Thu, Jul 19, 2018 7:44 PM
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The tradition of turning an adjective into a categorical noun by adding the suffix "a" had been around for some time, e.g., ephemera, Americana, exotica. The word was probably being used in the 19th Century. |