You know "escalate" came from "escalator" and not the other way around?

Jun. 4th, 2010 08:33 pm
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Escalate is a backformation of escalator.

This is just a segue for an interesting question that kept me up all night: What is the verb form of backformation? Is it backform or backformate?
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Date: 2010-06-05 05:03 am (UTC)
hopefulnebula: Mandelbrot Set with text "You can change the world in a tiny way" (Default)
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I don't know, but I really, really want it to be backformify.

Date: 2010-06-07 05:48 pm (UTC)
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You too, huh?
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