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Discussion Topic  RE: Pairs of letters (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I found "deeded", and that is the only one I can find of any higher order. How about words where ea......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pairs of letters (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I cheated, and wrote a computer program to do the work for me. Here are a couple of results from a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
In America, we would say "wreak havoc", not "wrought havoc", although the latter isn't unheard of, e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Bring/brought Teach/taught Work/wraught This was a fairly productive rule in Old(?) English....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Aeronautical terms: why French? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I would like to help out, but I don't think I've ever heard any of those terms. I've never really s......
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Discussion Topic  Saul Bellow (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
I was reading ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
On a similar note, I've read the letter v was also a late comer to the alphabet party....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double cross (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The word double could either be used as in "double agent", or "doubly cross", that is crossing twice......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I don't mind either way on colour/color, but to me agonize is clearly better, since this is less amb......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I'm good... (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Poker has a rich lexicon and it seems as if this demeans it. In 5 card draw and Lowball(5 card draw......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The world's funniest joke? (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I'm currently running Gentoo Linux, and at work they have Fedora(Linux). I suppose I could find a f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The world's funniest joke? (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The Daily Show did a bit with the scandalous suffic "gate", implying it went back for quite some tim......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Honestly, I'm not sure of the source of that, I'll have to try and track it down. From what I under......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old-fashioned Euphemisms (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
There are many strange artifacts in English similar to this Cat. For example, I was rereading a Ste......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old-fashioned Euphemisms (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
Kalleh, I've heard "spare the rod and spoil the child" quite a few times, although I can't seem to r......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
If I heard someone say "desperately sorry" I would almost interpret this as sarcasm. Of course, Bri......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Often you will hear the concept of a Universal Grammar. That is the idea that our brains are hardwi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
So, I would never say "There is none left", however, I would certainly say "There's none left", whic......
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