Philip Veerman wrote:
p.s. A side point, I write escaper or releasee. I believe that someone
who escapes is an escaper or even escapist if they are skilled at it.
Whereas an escapee is or should be, someone to whom an escape has
happened. This is in consistency to normal word use and contrary to the
way the word has commonly been used.
(Not bird-related - and thus off-topic - but curious.)
Dr. Goodword's Language Blog entry "No Escaping the Oddity of ‘Escapee’"
covers this. Apparently it's a case of semantics overruling syntax where
subjects/objects of transitive/intransitive verbs are concerned.
(An equivalent example is "retiree" vs. "retirer".)
http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=121
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