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Discussion Topic  Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
The Greek root "comos" means "revel." So if an en-comos is what we offer at a revel, it has the fee......
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Discussion Topic  Hybrid words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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Discussion Topic  Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Has Wordcraft ever had a discussion of "viral language?" By that I mean the differences among (i) a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
There is an interesting list of many punctuation marks with origins at: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
First, my thanks to all the kind folks for their welcome to Wordcraft... I've continued to follow l......
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Discussion Topic  Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting notes this week on printers' marks. Anyone know the name for the small circle above a v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
Kalleh: Recovered this from long ago. Is the site still functional?! Robert...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
We forget how hard life was for our ancestors, how the plague inspired "ring around the roses" It's ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Guess I'm just lucky with food... ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A question that has me stumped (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
The flock-passing-smoke / transience is most likely, but I instinctively went to smoked-goose......
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Discussion Topic  Repetitive duplicates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Boo boo, cha cha, cous cous, mahi mahi, peri peri, pom pom, shabu shabu, Sing Sing, tom tom... Star......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reiquepublicae vs Republica (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
In Republica Massachusettensi Senatus et Curatores Omnibus Ad Quo Hae Litterae Pervenerint Salutem i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reiquepublicae vs Republica (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Daughter just graduated BU Law. Near the top the diploma refers to "Republica" of Massachusetts. ......
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Discussion Topic  Reiquepublicae vs Republica (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Diploma for a new graduate refers to the state as "Republica" but the US as "reiquepublicae" Distin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Just as we explore the idea of word ghosts, and cultural memories, it seems xkcd got the same feelin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Actually still on point, proofreader... Amusing to note which things, though non-functional, give p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Perhaps so, Proofreader. On the other hand, boomboxes got really big, physically, in the 1980s. An......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
By the way - none of the under-30 crowd wear watches anymore. It's on their phone-pad-laptop. But e......
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