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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: 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: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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"And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and clene sheep." In the sense of soiled......
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December 25, 2007 08:08
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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Excellent observation. In Frye's scheme, mythic means god-like powers, the heroic has more control ......
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December 23, 2007 11:01
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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In "Anatomy of Criticism" Northop Frye proposed that literature moves in cycles, that it evolves (de......
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December 22, 2007 05:09
RE: "The Sea"
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From whence is the quote on the Colonel and Miss Vavasour? Note this from Wiki: "A vavasour, (also ......
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November 22, 2007 17:48
Extraordinary superlatives
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The vocabulary thread entry chili dogs brings to mind a new kind of superlative, as in "Evil con car......
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September 19, 2007 15:36
Less manipulative
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I appeal to the good folk of Wordcraft to help me find a better word. Accountants I know are offeri......
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September 11, 2007 08:08
RE: Colo(u)rful Words
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Speaking of colorful noises (or perhaps noisy colors), have a look at ......
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February 04, 2007 19:46
Convergent Evolution
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Two examples of convergent etymological evolution: catgut and apricot. Kudos, props, esteem to the......
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October 24, 2006 16:02
Market Share
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The OED has perhaps a quarter of a million words in English? Any source on how many are nouns, verb......
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October 22, 2006 11:13
Irregularity
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Why do some words take "ir" and others "un?" Is it mere euphony? As in -- "Unlike the regular army,......
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October 22, 2006 11:11
No good deed goes...
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Transcript of a news program: "For it did not merely serve to impune the morality..." Did the comme......
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September 03, 2006 10:47
RE: Sensory Words
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"Sialalogue" recalls prior discussions of hybrid Greek/Latin compound words, like astronaut, automob......
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August 12, 2006 13:47
RE: Sensory Words
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The theme brings to mind a word with great potential to be misunderstood -- "vomeronasal." Extra cr......
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August 09, 2006 08:36
The Greeks...
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There is a saying, "the Greeks had a word for it..." Is that an unattributable folk expression, or ......
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June 01, 2006 15:13
In sheep's clothing
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In a prior post we discussed language-as-virus, independent of its host. For example, Korean and Tu......
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May 30, 2006 04:57
Voluptuous Words
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Enjoyed a word from an article mourning the passing of French philosopher and gastronome Jean-Franco......
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May 05, 2006 04:42
Monumental
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There are innumerable memorials in the (US) District of Columbia, but I've only seen two monuments -......
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