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Tip of Tongue help
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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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February 10, 2011 09:42
RE: Arête
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Obviously the Greek arete has no diacritic and the French arête has a circumflex -- and anyway the t......
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October 09, 2005 11:45
'll' sound is some English accents
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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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September 13, 2005 12:11
Prick in the throat
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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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May 13, 2005 03:44
RE: Guffaw
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April 30, 2005 13:59
RE: A House on Fire
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The phrase means 'get on well', right? But the origin suggested there does not so much imply a frien......
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April 29, 2005 02:16
RE: A House on Fire
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Well fanx but that's a definition not an etymology. Probably easier to find in a book than the inter......
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April 28, 2005 15:21
RE: Guffaw
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Et voila: autological adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it means, e.g.......
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April 28, 2005 14:14
RE: Guffaw
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wordnerd, I think you might be looking for 'autonym', though I'm not sure. Something beginning with ......
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April 28, 2005 14:13
RE: Guffaw
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To return to the matter at hand, does anyone actually have an answer to his question? I'm pretty sur......
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April 28, 2005 03:18
A House on Fire
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'To get on like a house on fire.' Does this have a traceable origin?...
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April 27, 2005 12:37
RE: Word I can't remember
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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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April 25, 2005 03:17
Word I can't remember
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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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April 21, 2005 13:01
Tree or Three?
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Why do Irish people pronounce 'th' as a hard 't'? Is that the original pronunciation of migrants fro......
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May 20, 2004 08:59
RE: Kissing a fool: chiasmus
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For writers are to be polite in every sense, courteous in manner and properly skilled in literature.......
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May 20, 2004 08:27
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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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April 21, 2004 08:10
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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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February 10, 2011 09:42
RE: 'll' sound is some English accents
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Thank you aput. Yes it occurs to me that the sound in 'call' or 'hall' could plausibly be notated as......
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September 17, 2005 14:52
RE: Words from pre-scientific revolution
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Phlogiston!...
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September 13, 2005 12:13
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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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