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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
But Dan McCall ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quieten (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ah, the pleasures of owning a proper dictionary. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
McWhorter is being completely misrepresented if they're saying he believes in concepts of 'good' or ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Situated Cognition (in Potpourri) by aput
I have no idea what is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's certainly a word, because lots of people use it; and we all know what it means. It's a recentl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Parameter/Perimeter (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't encountered this usage in the wild, only in discussion of it. Neither is quite natural for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brain Freeze (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The usual term is ice-cream headache, though I've also seen cold stimulus headache. Apparently not e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
Bailey is now underway in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have thought it was the amount handled (by the bookies)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek root for 'name' is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
That's annoying. I've never even heard of .djvu, and am not interested in downloading YA proprietary......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "gallows": why the plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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Discussion Topic  RE: cognates: 'moon' and 'month' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I can add a couple more from unrelated families: Chechen ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bookworm (in Potpourri) by aput
I would agree with neveu: a theory in science is a consistent set of principles that generates expla......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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