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Discussion Topic  RE: Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Epsilon: that's what comes of not being able to get onto Perseus to check....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek for virtue is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is it still dirty if I at least TRY to clean it up? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think 'my turn in the barrel' is picturesque enough that it could be used on its own by someone wh......
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Discussion Topic  metaphor chop suey (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm proofing a very large book at the moment; it's largely written on the principle that if one meta......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The year of the Chav (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm really lost on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I did some work for a borough council on their ethnic monitoring, and their forms had two further bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
While 'dibs' is grammatically normal ('I've got dibs on the X', 'to call dibs on X'), 'bags' is most......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Moot' and 'meet' were affected by two regular vowel changes. The verb 'meet' is an umlaut of the no......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Even if some uses of 'infer' or 'moot' were solecisms, or non-standard in some clear way, there is u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Red shift (science question, not words) (in Potpourri) by aput
Stars don't move apart from each other at constant rates. The Hubble proportion only works for galax......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not interchangeable (as relative clause markers -- that both have other meanings can be take......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is a palindrome: PS is the letter psi....
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Discussion Topic  RE: lie/lay (in The Written Word) by aput
If the Beatles put an [r] in 'saw them', it was by trying to use an American accent. It's not natura......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The term I've heard of for it is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word Creativity Needed! (in Potpourri) by aput
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