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Discussion Topic  Tip of Tongue help (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
This word is I'm pretty sure US slang and I'm pretty sure a monosyllable. It means something like 'w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Obviously the Greek arete has no diacritic and the French arête has a circumflex -- and anyway the t......
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Discussion Topic  'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I'd like to know if there's a symbol in IPA for the sound some (especially Southern, ie. round where......
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Discussion Topic  Prick in the throat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I know I've already asked about the tickle in one's throat that precedes a cough; well, along the sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
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Discussion Topic  RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
The phrase means 'get on well', right? But the origin suggested there does not so much imply a frien......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Well fanx but that's a definition not an etymology. Probably easier to find in a book than the inter......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Et voila: autological adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it means, e.g.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
wordnerd, I think you might be looking for 'autonym', though I'm not sure. Something beginning with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
To return to the matter at hand, does anyone actually have an answer to his question? I'm pretty sur......
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Discussion Topic  A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
'To get on like a house on fire.' Does this have a traceable origin?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word I can't remember (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Hmm. I'm beginning to think I made this word up! Sure I saw it browsing one of those obscure word si......
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Discussion Topic  Word I can't remember (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I'm sure there's a word for the irritation/tickle in your throat that precedes a cough. The guys on ......
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Discussion Topic  Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Why do Irish people pronounce 'th' as a hard 't'? Is that the original pronunciation of migrants fro......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Kissing a fool: chiasmus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
For writers are to be polite in every sense, courteous in manner and properly skilled in literature.......
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Discussion Topic  Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Hello I have two questions that are not related to one another in any way. Why is today's AWAD wo......
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Discussion Topic  Tip of Tongue help (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
This word is I'm pretty sure US slang and I'm pretty sure a monosyllable. It means something like 'w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Thank you aput. Yes it occurs to me that the sound in 'call' or 'hall' could plausibly be notated as......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from pre-scientific revolution (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Phlogiston!...
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Discussion Topic  'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I'd like to know if there's a symbol in IPA for the sound some (especially Southern, ie. round where......
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