[conspire] Folk etymology for fun and profit.

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> DuBois:   "How many times have you surveilled Mr. Reiser?" 

I understand that it's a term of art in law enforcement these days, but
I've always been irked by the verb "to surveil".  Surely "surveillance"
is the noun form of "to survey", no? 

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