Saturday, June 09, 2012

Re-probe or reinvestigation?

"Call strengthens for re-probe into Yuva Morcha leader’s murder," said a newspaper headline.


Re-probe? Wiktionary says "to probe again", but the Corpus of Historical American English did not return any search results for either "re-probe" or "reprobe". Moreover, reprobe seems to be a molecular biology term than a word meaning "reinvestigation". To be more apt, it is better to use "reinvestigate" than re-probe.

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