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RE: Pairs of letters
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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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September 04, 2005 15:45
RE: Pairs of letters
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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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September 04, 2005 12:49
RE: Something's wroughten here
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In America, we would say "wreak havoc", not "wrought havoc", although the latter isn't unheard of, e......
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September 04, 2005 12:21
RE: Something's wroughten here
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Bring/brought Teach/taught Work/wraught This was a fairly productive rule in Old(?) English....
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September 03, 2005 12:07
RE: Aeronautical terms: why French?
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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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August 27, 2005 22:46
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I was reading ......
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August 26, 2005 20:31
RE: British vs. American English
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On a similar note, I've read the letter v was also a late comer to the alphabet party....
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August 21, 2005 09:59
RE: Double cross
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The word double could either be used as in "double agent", or "doubly cross", that is crossing twice......
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August 20, 2005 21:56
RE: British vs. American English
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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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August 20, 2005 15:17
RE: I'm good...
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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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August 18, 2005 22:09
RE: The world's funniest joke?
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I'm currently running Gentoo Linux, and at work they have Fedora(Linux). I suppose I could find a f......
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August 16, 2005 16:03
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August 15, 2005 21:02
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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The Daily Show did a bit with the scandalous suffic "gate", implying it went back for quite some tim......
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August 12, 2005 22:14
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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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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August 10, 2005 19:50
RE: Old-fashioned Euphemisms
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August 09, 2005 15:54
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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There are many strange artifacts in English similar to this Cat. For example, I was rereading a Ste......
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August 09, 2005 15:50
RE: Old-fashioned Euphemisms
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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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August 09, 2005 05:46
RE: British vs. American English
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If I heard someone say "desperately sorry" I would almost interpret this as sarcasm. Of course, Bri......
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August 07, 2005 20:29
RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules"
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Often you will hear the concept of a Universal Grammar. That is the idea that our brains are hardwi......
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August 07, 2005 09:46
RE: Well-meaning but incorrect grammar "rules"
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So, I would never say "There is none left", however, I would certainly say "There's none left", whic......
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August 02, 2005 20:57
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