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Discussion Topic  RE: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
centrally-located... Well we've taken in a few new countries since I first had that thought. Obvious......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to that, I'd guess they got it from some writer who used 'dialect' -- someone like Scott, perhaps......
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Discussion Topic  RE: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've always thought that instead of shuttling people to Strasbourg and Brussels, the headquarters sh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The rendering 'O Herr' certainly suggests it's just a spelling variant of 'lor'. I don't know what t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: rat fink (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: New words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would presume the contemporary use of 'defenestration' is in removing Windows -- to install Linux ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's pronounced [tsunami] (with the distinctive Japanese form of [u], which doesn't concern us). It......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, the Japanese is /tunami/, pronounced [tsunami]. I find initial [ts] easy to say, so I pronounce......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gestures (in Potpourri) by aput
Very American, I think. I've never seen it used, but I grew up seeing it depicted in the cartoons in......
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Discussion Topic  RE: yclept (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A word only ever used facetiously. Archaism belongs in carefully archaic styles. Definitely to be av......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The 'pale' horse was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, it's standard English in the adverbial sense (pretty big)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have guessed this was modernish (19th or late-18th century) slang, but evidently it goes rig......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ukraine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English uses 'the' either when there's an explicit toponym with a qualifier (the United Kingdom, the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Banned? Barred? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ban and bann are indeed related: the basic original sense is 'proclamation'. The Proto-Indo-European......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quaquaversal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've got to mention my favourite Maltese word, ......
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