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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: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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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: Are these words duplicates? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, in biology replication is a complex process, much more than merely duplication or copying. And ......
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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: Are these words duplicates? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting: I've had discussions about this before. Both are used in a variety of situations, they'......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is it just me or... (in Potpourri) by aput
This is actually a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Further vs. Farther (in Potpourri) by aput
I think that was Geoff Pullum on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Further vs. Farther (in Potpourri) by aput
I have heard of such a "rule", but I'm sure like all such pseudo-rules it has little basis in fact. ......
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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: -vores vs. -phages (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
Why? A completely unwarranted assumption. The grammatical difference is clear: one contains an 'and'......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
I meant to look up last night what Huddleston and Pullum say about this in the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the link, for Ayenbitel read Ayenbite IIRC = if I recall correctly...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... and a few hints about Kentish, such as that it's a southern dialect and therefore has initial z ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's because there are two different prefixes ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thole (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Good question, with no definite answer. Dictionary makers have to decide whether to set words out as......
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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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