On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:18:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > From the OED:
> > 
> > reoccur: occur again or habitually  
> 
> I don't regard myself bound by others' ability to find earlier examples
> of the same mistake. We have 'occur', 'incur', 'concur' and 'recur'. It
> is rarely a good idea to compound prefixes.

Nor me, and I still have no idea why I used reoccur instead of recur,
brain fade induced by the hour of posting I guess.

But an admitted pedantic response deserves a reply from the OED :P


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