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ruination

Postby bbeeton » Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:56 pm

This doesn't seem to have any existence except as a synonym of "ruin". Is it perhaps regional, or just used as an alternate because it flows better in context?

Supporting the hypothesis of regional usage is the similarity, sound-wise, to "tarnation".

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Re: ruination

Postby Slava » Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:50 pm

Taken up and treated here.
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Re: ruination

Postby Dr. Goodword » Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:25 pm

And tarnation was explored here. When damn became darn, damnation became darnation, which shortly became tarnation. I had forgotten how tarnation came
to be in my Southern dialect.
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