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Discussion Topic  RE: Banished Words and Phrases for 2006 (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
I first heard wicked meaning "good" probably about 12 years ago, although it seems to have died down......
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Discussion Topic  RE: MSN (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I've always heard of the mainstream media to describe news sources other than tabloids, like the "Na......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Demotivation (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
If at first you don't succeed, then maybe failure is what you're good at....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Aha! moment" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I would probably say, "had a Eureka!", although this is somewhat abusive. Another possibility is "a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Establishment (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Often abbreviated as TPTB, the Powers that Be....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Who/Whom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Furthermore, you can't say "Whom do you like?", you have to "Whom do ye like". This dumbing down of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sense of sense (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
It threw me for more than an instance. I think one possibility is "the, or more often, a particular ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dactyl Riddle (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I think that is the hardest riddle ever....
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Discussion Topic  RE: words with changed meanings (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I agree with zmjezhd. It doesn't make sense for a polysemous word to have to have dozens of senses.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: words with changed meanings (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
The words "knight" and "knave" underwent interesting semantic shifts....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sign Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sign Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The reason the woman wasn't considered "deaf" enough is that she wasn't a "native speaker" of ASL. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Whence Wiki? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
We discussed it some here: ......
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Discussion Topic  Favorite words Website (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: "noob" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
After some further thought, "peeps" doesn't seem to fit in with any AAVE that I've heard. The term ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: pwnership (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Frag is actually from military(Marine?) slang going back to around Vietnam. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: pwnership (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I've heard and used this word hundreds of times, and when it is spelled with a "p", it is always "po......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "noob" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Peeps is definitely not from leet speak. Most of the terms in leet speek have letters replaced by n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: How Much of English is Anglo-Saxon? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Can't we just crawl the OED? Which number did you decide you wanted, the percentage of Anglo-Saxon ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Purity of the Malay Tongue (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
Perhaps they could use the hy-u-o-ook-kuh, or given the part of the world, a caning....
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