Timeline for How is the word "ubication" used?
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| Mar 3, 2017 at 13:02 | answer | added | Alaska Man | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 9:50 | answer | added | user218195 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 18:41 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | Please cite which dictionary you are citing. Almost all dictionary give example usages. Definitions are built on usages. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 16:21 | comment | added | Lambie | @tchrist I guess you mean Spanish and Portuguese speakers attempting to write in English? The crap I see as a translator is not to be believed. And this "sounds" like that. I daren't even google the English spelling as it might give me negative frissons, which I am trying to avoid. Cheers. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 16:07 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2017 at 16:05 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Lambie It seems to be used by writers familiar with the Spanish and Portuguese use of the word, at least today. See also the citations for ubicated to mean situated, located, placed. The citations from 150 years ago when these words were more common are not always so clearly ones written by hispanophones or lusophones as most of today’s appear to be. I’ve caught myself using ubicated in English before, but I think that’s mental crosstalk, as I am not uncontaminated of Iberian tongues. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | Lambie | That definition sounds to me like the Spanish: ubicación, verb: ubicar. I would imagine it was one of the 19th century Latinate creations (or was it 18th century - a time when hundreds of Latin root words were being coined left and right). I could be wrong. I have never heard it in English. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 14:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/830428028308168704 | ||
| Feb 11, 2017 at 13:47 | answer | added | user66974 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 13:12 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'd argue it's not commonly used. This Google Ngram seems to indicate that this was not always the case. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 12:57 | history | asked | Eric | CC BY-SA 3.0 |