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CONTRI and DISTRI
Someone somewhere decided English
needed to be changed.
As usual with our copy-cat world, so dire
an unthinking band wagon has spread as
a forest fire.
An academic,typically verbose, wrote 
'why use one when two' could sound
more up-to-date and new!
Thus the 'double prefix' was conceived 
and sadly like a Topsy grew.
Contri and Distri have wrongly become 
the norm and vernacular pronunciation
overcoming like a desert storm.
English does indeed each day live 
and breathe ...  BUT..
one thought with you I leave..
a double pre-fix cannot be ..
ignorance is not bliss..you see?
 CON & DIS are prefixes to, for example
 English words like TRIBUTE.
however 'Contri and Distri' are not prefixes 
to any known English word, 
they are a 'modern'  'madhatter syllabic nonsense'
 straight out of Lewis's 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Another 'modern affectation'  like the pronunciation
of the letter 'H' as 'haitch' instead of 'aitch'.

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