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RE: British vs. American English
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The hot water boiler is usually spelt geyser, and is pronounced the same as geezer the old man. The ......
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November 20, 2004 00:14
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> The only other suffix I know of that's been elevated to word status is ism ish...
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November 18, 2004 16:17
RE: hapax logomenon
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Hapaxlegomenon is a property of corpora, and is quite different from a claim of invention. Typically......
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November 07, 2004 10:40
RE: F-word etymology
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Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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October 25, 2004 13:51
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I'm really lost on ......
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October 21, 2004 13:07
RE: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients
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I want to scream over the tannoy announcements, 'We're not customers! We're passengers!'. And it mak......
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October 10, 2004 01:05
RE: Pronunciations
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I don't think I've ever come across the word 'reparable'. It would for me be stressed on the first s......
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October 05, 2004 11:19
RE: Panopticon Effect
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September 29, 2004 11:48
RE: Pronunciations
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Dictionaries lag behind the times. I say [3:] ......
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September 29, 2004 11:37
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'zebra' is usually ......
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September 23, 2004 10:28
RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"?
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That quote ......
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September 17, 2004 12:42
RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"?
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That's interesting, I own Spencer and Zwicky and can check around it. They only use 'metanalysis' on......
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September 17, 2004 00:06
RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"?
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The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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September 16, 2004 00:46
RE: Middle English
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One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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September 12, 2004 00:46
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September 08, 2004 16:11
RE: "Balkanized"
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During the recent series of civil wars in Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander wrote a letter to the p......
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September 08, 2004 13:03
RE: Pronunciations
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It isn't mispronouncing! Not if people around you say it like that....
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September 03, 2004 15:46
RE: wool and yarn
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No, I meant you write 'my mom knit, but I didn't', whereas I would write 'knitted' for that past ten......
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September 03, 2004 01:58
RE: Pronunciations
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For me: gigabyte with a [g], mauve with the GOAT vowel [@U], err with the NURSE vowel [3:], and erro......
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September 03, 2004 01:43
RE: wool and yarn
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SOED dates 'wool' sense ......
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