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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Still can't think of a Classical Latin word ending in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "gallows": why the plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Phonics (in Potpourri) by aput
The phonemes: in my accent there are about 44 phonemes, 24 consonants and 20 vowels. In some other a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A good example of the randomness of change at the supermarket today. Change is often presented as if......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
First, in general linguists don't know causes of historical change. There is not much in the way of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Vanilla" - etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Earlier ......
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