Marcio_Osorio

As I read the "The Writing of Compounds" part of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged I came across the following excerpt:

"In some words that appear to be similar compounds the apparent independent English word is an assimilation to an English word (crayfish, gillyflower, safflower, gridiron, andiron)."

I attempted:

"In some words that appear as similiar compounds the apparent independent ... appears as an assimilation to an English word ..."

I mean, I found no other plausible EP substitute for "appear to be." Can you adequately "E-P" it? If you do the whole excerpt, then thank you very much!

Karen

How about, 'what seems as', has similarities to, comes as close to......(comparison), one would give an educated guess that....., from my past recollections, I would say....

Do any of these work for you? K

Marcio_Osorio

Yes, they do. Thank you, K.