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Discussion Topic  RE: Colophon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It spooks me when my Sprachgefühl flags up a word I've never thought of in that context: but I ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the link, for Ayenbitel read Ayenbite IIRC = if I recall correctly...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... and a few hints about Kentish, such as that it's a southern dialect and therefore has initial z ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's because there are two different prefixes ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Patois (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Patois, or Patwa or Kwéyòl, is also used as the name of the French-based Creoles of th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Epsilon: that's what comes of not being able to get onto Perseus to check....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh well, inceptive and inchoative are the same thing grammatically. The '(?)' is there because for s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek for virtue is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thole (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Good question, with no definite answer. Dictionary makers have to decide whether to set words out as......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ancient uses of the term included both verbal irony -- saying one thing intending it to be taken......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The London sound is variously notated. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: eyes on -ize/-ise (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
-ize was widely used about 300 years ago, then -ise came (back?) in in Britain later. Around 1900 O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: refugee (in Potpourri) by aput
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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: 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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