why are pedophile and necrophiliac the respective noun forms of those words
necrophile is used and necrophiliac is also an adjective, and prolly the noun usage arises from misuse of the adjectivial
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I've never seen the noun form used
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so far as I can recall, anyway
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they've got a particularly weird ngram history: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=necrophile%2Cnecrophiliac&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cnecrophile%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnecrophiliac%3B%2Cc0 … i vaguely suspect influential publications
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