unexpectantly vs. unexpectedly

lo...@puddy.fpg.unc.edu

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Jun 7, 1994, 10:21:12 AM6/7/94

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what is the difference between the two and correct usage for each?

the words are: unexpectantly and unexpectedly

Laura Johnson

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Jun 7, 1994, 11:42:16 AM6/7/94

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lo...@puddy.fpg.unc.edu wrote:
: what is the difference between the two and correct usage for each?

: the words are: unexpectantly and unexpectedly

"He waited unexpectantly" = He waited, expecting nothing.
"He waited unexpectedly" = He was not expected to wait, but did so.

But I have never seen the word "unexpectantly"; it seems to me very
awkward.

Steve Hayes

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Jun 10, 1994, 2:35:22 AM6/10/94

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In article <2t1voo$9...@bigblue.oit.unc.edu> lo...@puddy.fpg.unc.edu writes:

>what is the difference between the two and correct usage for each?
>
>the words are: unexpectantly and unexpectedly

Without looking in a dictionary, my immediate response is that the first
refers to the attitude of a person, whereas the second refers to the nature
of an event.

A person is unexpectant - i.e. living for the present only, not expecting
anything of the future.

An event is unexpected - nobody thought it would happen.

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8soul...@gmail.com

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Feb 1, 2019, 2:21:44 PM2/1/19

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On Tuesday, June 7, 1994 at 10:21:12 AM UTC-4, lo...@puddy.fpg.unc.edu wrote:
> what is the difference between the two and correct usage for each?
>
> the words are: unexpectantly and unexpectedly

I don't know if this helps, or at least adds context maybe, but recently explaining to someone about a rules change which affected someone, i said "The rules changed unexpectantly".

Horace LaBadie

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Feb 1, 2019, 3:25:56 PM2/1/19

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In article <471de49d-4e5c-4dd3...@googlegroups.com>,

After an almost twenty-five year pregnant pause...

Mike_Duffy

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Feb 1, 2019, 5:35:36 PM2/1/19

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:21:41 -0800 (PST), 8soul...@gmail.com wrote:

>> [...] unexpectedly

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ilovekur...@gmail.com

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Sep 10, 2019, 11:14:43 AM9/10/19

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Yep, it doesn't help. Grammatically, you were incorrect.

Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Sep 15, 2019, 10:25:03 AM9/15/19

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Pity poor lo...@puddy.fpg.unc.edu: waiting patiently 25 years for an
answer, and when it finally comes it's bollocks.

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Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Sep 15, 2019, 11:08:57 AM9/15/19

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Peter Moylan was advising us not to buy educational supples from
someone who doesn't know how to spell "you". I feel the same way about
getting vocabulary advice from someone who doesn't know how to write
"I".

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athel

Peter T. Daniels

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Sep 15, 2019, 12:44:37 PM9/15/19

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Even more bizarre that you reply in September to a message from February.

Wow. Steve Hayes replied on June 10, 1994.

Samantha Foster

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Dec 6, 2023, 11:13:24 AM12/6/23

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This is wild. I was 8 in 1994