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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: Crotchety
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'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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January 25, 2005 23:48
RE: Crotchety
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> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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January 24, 2005 00:08
RE: Crotchety
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The related group is from a root ......
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January 23, 2005 06:49
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: 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
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
RE: Phonics
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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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Earlier ......
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November 28, 2004 01:10
RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes
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The suffixes phonetically conflated at the end of OE: so -e -a -u all became -ə [schwa or -e if......
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November 28, 2004 00:53
RE: Suffixes becoming words
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jheem: the ......
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November 24, 2004 16:00
RE: Suffixes becoming words
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Thought of another one: in fan fiction writers often concentrate on a particular relationship, such ......
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November 22, 2004 00:29
RE: British vs. American English
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To clarify, there are two separate words here. There is 'geezer', an old man, from an earlier form '......
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