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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: Dispersing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Twenty O Six (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me the years of this decade are only two thousand and six, not twenty oh six (we don't have the ......
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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: 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: Looming deadlines (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, I'd read that. That's what I meant by 'unknown'. :-)...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Looming deadlines (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The words are unrelated. The noun is an old word originally for any tool (as in 'heirloom'), while t......
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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: Heavenly Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bilbo (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The place in Spain is the Basque ......
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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: -vores vs. -phages (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: The-saurus (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Because ......
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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: 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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