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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Short on' sounds highly dialectal to me, and I'd always say 'short of'. I can never work out what ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas goat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Another useful employee is the Tennessee fainting goat. It has a genetic defect that means its legs ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I should clarify that I don't want to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's why I was looking for examples of 'as X as' and 'more X than', because they show X is an adje......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Cutlery for me is knives, forks, spoons and the like (I hadn't even registered the possible connexio......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well, I wouldn't use it that way, and I don't think many people would (even if they were familiar wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The -o- of anthrop- is long in Greek, so if we were doing this from scratch there's a good case for ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The-saurus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
zmjezhd has beaten me to this, the part I couldn't answer. It's now the next day and I've consulted ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The-saurus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Because ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
{revope} means 'reverse open e', and is that small 3 symbol. It's a symbol used exclusively for the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Homophonic (in The Written Word) by aput
It's to do the U as in UNIT with the Y sound in front of it. The sound change in England (and Austr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Potter Words and Wordplay; later books (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
Did Rowling use 'enervate' at all? No example is given. The spell command 'Ennervate', as with all h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: One sentence or two? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I am equivocal. Exclamation marks are definitely within the sentence in cases like: Alas! that ever......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wherefore why? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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