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RE: US Independence Day
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Etymonline says as early as the 1300s. "Haca's or Hook's Island" became "Hackney" where they raised......
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July 08, 2008 09:03
RE: Obamacons
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Asa: You are mistaken. Only partisans have ever claimed the Second Amendment is solely a "collectiv......
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June 29, 2008 05:45
RE: Animals as Metaphors
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Important distinction: The albatross itself represents good luck. It was only when the mariner kille......
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May 02, 2008 07:40
RE: Noble Eponyms
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Any finite amount of initial capital will eventually be ruined. If I run a casino with just a little......
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April 09, 2008 17:35
RE: Noble Eponyms
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"1,828.042084 to 1" said the actuary. And not a wise play by Yarborough. Excellent odds for a 1,000......
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April 09, 2008 08:33
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"Vuja de" brings to mind an alternative direction for bad French phrases modeled on "deja vu." Deja ......
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March 30, 2008 18:32
RE: Para-words
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Thanks, z. That's what comes of searching one's memory phonetically rather than by etymological roo......
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March 26, 2008 06:24
RE: Para-words
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There is also "parabellum," which in German arms manufacture refers most commonly to the 9mm Luger p......
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March 26, 2008 05:20
RE: Archaic Words
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The old poem "The Three Ravens" ends: "God send every gentleman Such haukes, such hounds, and such ......
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March 20, 2008 05:30
RE: Nine ack emma
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Hacking through statistics and train service, I revert to the initial theme of words-for-letters. A......
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March 12, 2008 06:41
Purveyor versus Procurer
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The newspapers report "the Mann Act has been used...in prostitution cases, although normally it was ......
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March 12, 2008 06:16
RE: Fossil Words
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There are many such repetitiously redundant and periphrastic pleonasms in the law: * cease and desis......
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March 07, 2008 09:06
RE: What the fuck ?
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What, in fact, is an inappropriate word? When, if ever, do substitutes become as inappropriate as t......
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March 05, 2008 11:29
RE: Fossil Words
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Though I do recall a Star Trek episode "Amok Time..."...
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March 05, 2008 09:33
RE: Logic, Reasoning and Thought
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A quote from William F. Buckley, on language: "Some words, Dwight Macdonald wrote in a celebrated r......
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February 29, 2008 17:45
RE: Pregnancy, from Z to A
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From Kurt Vonnegut: He was a portly man, aslop with coffee, gravid with Danish pastry. Poor, lugubri......
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February 24, 2008 04:55
RE: It’s a jungle out there!
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"A Shot in the Dark" (1964) was followed five years later by another show with a bilingual pun, Oh C......
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January 26, 2008 20:25
RE: Portmanteau words
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Ludicrous - source of amusement. (Per Etymonline, sense of "ridiculous" from 1782.) + Lunacy - ins......
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January 18, 2008 09:36
RE: Portmanteau words
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Resurrecting an old thread with a terrific new example from ......
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January 18, 2008 08:46
RE: Making and Using Words
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Searching for images of portmanteaux, I came upon one made by a Pennsylvania firm, The Sutler of Mou......
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