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RE: European Babel
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centrally-located... Well we've taken in a few new countries since I first had that thought. Obvious......
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January 08, 2005 02:06
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As to that, I'd guess they got it from some writer who used 'dialect' -- someone like Scott, perhaps......
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January 07, 2005 13:34
RE: European Babel
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I've always thought that instead of shuttling people to Strasbourg and Brussels, the headquarters sh......
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January 06, 2005 10:11
RE: Loer
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The rendering 'O Herr' certainly suggests it's just a spelling variant of 'lor'. I don't know what t......
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January 06, 2005 01:10
RE: rat fink
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Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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January 04, 2005 23:56
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December 31, 2004 09:18
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December 31, 2004 05:28
RE: New words
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I would presume the contemporary use of 'defenestration' is in removing Windows -- to install Linux ......
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December 31, 2004 00:45
RE: Tsunami
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It's pronounced [tsunami] (with the distinctive Japanese form of [u], which doesn't concern us). It......
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December 31, 2004 00:39
RE: Tsunami
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Yes, the Japanese is /tunami/, pronounced [tsunami]. I find initial [ts] easy to say, so I pronounce......
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December 30, 2004 00:02
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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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December 28, 2004 00:40
RE: yclept
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A word only ever used facetiously. Archaism belongs in carefully archaic styles. Definitely to be av......
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December 26, 2004 00:34
RE: Dark Horses
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The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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December 21, 2004 14:03
RE: Dark Horses
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The 'pale' horse was ......
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December 21, 2004 08:49
RE: Pretty much...
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Yes, it's standard English in the adverbial sense (pretty big)....
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December 20, 2004 02:37
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December 19, 2004 15:23
RE: Pretty much...
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I would have guessed this was modernish (19th or late-18th century) slang, but evidently it goes rig......
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December 19, 2004 01:45
RE: Ukraine
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English uses 'the' either when there's an explicit toponym with a qualifier (the United Kingdom, the......
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December 17, 2004 02:03
RE: Banned? Barred?
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Ban and bann are indeed related: the basic original sense is 'proclamation'. The Proto-Indo-European......
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December 17, 2004 01:55
RE: Quaquaversal
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I've got to mention my favourite Maltese word, ......
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