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Discussion Topic  RE: Lost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  Courtship Cads (in Potpourri) by shufitz
For Valentine's day we talked about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: German lingo of mentality and mental states (in The Vocabulary Forum) by shufitz
Originally posted by Kalleh: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by shufitz
Aput, since I've already done the download, would you like me to send you sample pages as images you......
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Discussion Topic  Uchronia (in Potpourri) by shufitz
How would history been different if .........
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Discussion Topic  Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
The paper is full of articles about the Super Bowl (the championship game of US professional footbal......
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Discussion Topic  The one-finger salute (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
An editorialist tells that if he had been reporting from Iraq, this is the dispatch he'd have sent:......
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Discussion Topic  Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by shufitz
To my surprise, the various old dictionaries don't appear to be available on-line. I could find no c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chancery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
If I recall from my law school days, chancery dealt with multiple kinds of cases; I don't know wheth......
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Discussion Topic  cognates: 'moon' and 'month' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
nevau, noting that the english words meaning moon, month are cognates, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Book Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chancery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Interesting. Could the source be Dicken's view of the british court system, where being in court w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: If you're fired, you're de-__ (in Wordplay) by shufitz
When [Thomas Edison][Joseph Swan]* fired him, he was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Avaricious (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
I think of avarice as lust for money, but here's an example meaning lust for goods:......
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Discussion Topic  OED includes words never found in use (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
We tend to think of OED as the authority defining 'what is a word': what OED includes counts as a wo......
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Discussion Topic  New term: "drill down" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
One nice thing about driving long distance is that as you listen to the radio for diversion, you may......
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Discussion Topic  "Tit for tat" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
CW used the phrase "tit for tat". Where does that phrase come from? A little googling turned up an ......
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Discussion Topic  Whatchamacallits and doohickies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What do you call the something that's on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-but-I-can't-think-of-the-word-for-it?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Much of that I understand, jheem. But can you give a few examples of 'impersonal' verbs, with valen......
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Discussion Topic  RE: If you're fired, you're de-__ (in Wordplay) by shufitz
In the old days of ships of mast and sail, an experienced sailor was said to 'know the ropes'. But ......
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