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Discussion Topic  RE: Misuse of Words - What annoys you? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They aren't being misused. Apart from 'adaption', which I don't know that I've ever heard or seen, a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
You would only be pronouncing ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Squaw" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The etymology is in no serious doubt. Massachusett [skwa] or similar, '(young) woman', from Proto-Al......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
If teachers "correct" children who say it, then it's grammatical for the children, because it's what......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
'Me and my dad' is definitely grammatical for almost everyone, and is almost certainly the most gram......
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Discussion Topic  RE: She's dead but I still talk about her. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... followed a few hours later by present rigid. Continuing states take, or can take, the present t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: so that? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, 'that Adj' meaning 'so Adj', 'Adj to so great an extent' is a regional usage, not standard Brit......
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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: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
He was no more than a name to me; one hears of fashionable figures but often doesn't get why they're......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
Japanese borrowings from English have a few interesting peculiarities. Because Japanese has mainly o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sneek peek? (in Potpourri) by aput
"Good greef" has 3800 ghits. Strange, strange place the Web. "sneeek peak" has 2, "sneakpeak" has 5......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Same here: naif is not a word in my active vocabulary. Before looking into this I only thought of it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A bit of Googling confirms Kalleh's and my original impression, that 'naif' is a genderless noun in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Curious. The original 1706 quotation is "The Ice jam'd", which I suppose fits the supposed sense jam......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'When he crossed the Tiber' is subordinated by the conjunction 'when', and can't stand on its own (e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Satrapies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I can't swear to this, but I think I've seen it around in the modern political sense for some while.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Naive is certainly an adjective in English: you can't say 'she is a naive'. I tend to agree with Kal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No main clause verbs. All the verbs in there are dependent on noun phrases or in subordinate clauses......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Substring search at Perseus! I didn't know you could do that: I've just seen the basic "beginning wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Still can't think of a Classical Latin word ending in ......
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