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RE: Vatic/vatican
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Still can't think of a Classical Latin word ending in ......
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April 03, 2005 23:50
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April 02, 2005 06:28
RE: British vs. American English
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'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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February 13, 2005 00:26
RE: Thusly
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The word ......
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February 12, 2005 03:48
RE: Thusly
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It's certainly a word, because lots of people use it; and we all know what it means. It's a recentl......
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February 11, 2005 12:32
RE: Pronunciations
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The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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February 06, 2005 23:37
RE: Pronunciations
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I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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February 06, 2005 12:22
RE: British vs. American English
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Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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February 03, 2005 12:20
RE: "gallows": why the plural?
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We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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February 03, 2005 00:34
RE: Feeling poorly
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The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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January 19, 2005 14:23
RE: Feeling poorly
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But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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January 16, 2005 15:29
RE: Feeling poorly
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This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo......
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January 15, 2005 23:44
RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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January 15, 2005 12:17
RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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January 14, 2005 00:21
RE: British vs. American English
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December 23, 2004 01:55
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The key pair is the noun 'advice' and verb 'advise'. I'm not 100% sure that what I'm about to say is......
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December 22, 2004 12:36
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The phonemes: in my accent there are about 44 phonemes, 24 consonants and 20 vowels. In some other a......
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December 22, 2004 01:07
RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes
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A good example of the randomness of change at the supermarket today. Change is often presented as if......
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November 30, 2004 09:02
RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes
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First, in general linguists don't know causes of historical change. There is not much in the way of ......
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November 30, 2004 01:44
RE: "Vanilla" - etymology
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