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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
There are two possible grammars for these constructions. The relative clause can attach to either th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double cross (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a perfect opportunity to mention a word famously used in only one context. Churchill switche......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wherefore why? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the case of English deadjectivals (derivatives from adjectives), '-ness' is the only freely produ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Anantapodoton is given there as a specific form of anapodoton, closer to the required sense. I'm not......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
*is puzzled* Link is to Silva Rhetoricae, whose main page is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The closest I can find is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: datum and data (in Potpourri) by aput
zmjezhd's point is more than that. The example sentence is thoroughly ungrammatical, whatever you tr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British Bit (in Potpourri) by aput
It seems to be an idiom of long standing. Here's a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periodic Table (in The Written Word) by aput
Ah. Now I foresee a definite grammatical problem here. Almost the only thing that's going to work fo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vilipend (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Does it contain ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vilipend (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's long been one of my favourite words, for its sheer sound coupled with its splendid weight of me......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology of "counting" terms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dialect boundaries usually don't exist at all when you look at them in close enough detail. Where yo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology: lasagna (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Curiously, the plural ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not the same: jerry-building is incompetent, but jury-rigging is merely temporary, and is co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Salutations (in The Written Word) by aput
I've always preferred that too. I described myself earlier as possibly old-fashioned, because a lot......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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