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RE: Cryptozoology
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Certainly. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about many of the cryptid stories -- just very v......
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December 30, 2005 14:00
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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Actually I should clarify that I don't want to ......
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December 27, 2005 02:32
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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That's why I was looking for examples of 'as X as' and 'more X than', because they show X is an adje......
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December 27, 2005 00:15
RE: Reoccur; recur
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I look rather askance at 'reoccur': for me the natural term for this is 'recur', and I think I've ch......
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December 26, 2005 23:39
RE: Are these words duplicates?
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Yes, in biology replication is a complex process, much more than merely duplication or copying. And ......
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December 26, 2005 13:20
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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Well, I wouldn't use it that way, and I don't think many people would (even if they were familiar wi......
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December 26, 2005 13:13
RE: Are these words duplicates?
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Interesting: I've had discussions about this before. Both are used in a variety of situations, they'......
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December 22, 2005 12:58
RE: "Fortuitously"
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If he meant 'fortuitously', it's unexplained why it is. It would be fortuitous if they had decided t......
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December 22, 2005 12:40
RE: Bucket vs. Pail
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For me, and I can only speak for standard southern English not involved in specialist occupations, t......
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December 21, 2005 05:58
RE: Is it just me or...
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This is actually a ......
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December 09, 2005 05:05
RE: The-saurus
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zmjezhd has beaten me to this, the part I couldn't answer. It's now the next day and I've consulted ......
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November 10, 2005 01:56
RE: -vores vs. -phages
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November 09, 2005 02:13
RE: The-saurus
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Because ......
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November 09, 2005 02:08
RE: One-letter words
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Vowels are easy. In Polish there are prepositions ......
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November 04, 2005 05:28
RE: Colophon
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Ah, I didn't bother checking the English etymology: having found colon-1 I assumed the other was a s......
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November 03, 2005 01:44
RE: Colophon
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There's no suitable Greek suffix containing -ph- that could relate the two. Let's see what ......
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November 01, 2005 01:58
RE: I-me-we-us-you-you-you-you
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Strictly speaking, there is still a clear number distinction between singular ......
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October 27, 2005 10:10
RE: Colophon
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It spooks me when my Sprachgefühl flags up a word I've never thought of in that context: but I ......
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October 25, 2005 08:55
RE: Remorse and Remark
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In the link, for Ayenbitel read Ayenbite IIRC = if I recall correctly...
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October 21, 2005 02:09
RE: Remorse and Remark
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... and a few hints about Kentish, such as that it's a southern dialect and therefore has initial z ......
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