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Discussion Topic  RE: "FUD" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
from the better late than ever dept... ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rewriting the OED (in The Written Word) by tsuwm
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rewriting the OED (in The Written Word) by tsuwm
..as to rewriting the OED, online entries added or mod'ed over the last five(?) years should have lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rewriting the OED (in The Written Word) by tsuwm
SCI FI Pronounced "sky fi" or "si fi", an abbreviation for "science fiction", said to have been intr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
>strong negative sense I don't entirely agree; sedulous merely adds a more persistent shading, w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
some total guesswork: if you want to control something, you'd like to get a handle on it. what bett......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Groundhog's Day (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
>does YART stand for "Yet Another Rehashed Topic?" <nodding head up-and-down>...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
>it should be expanded to autantonym ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
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Discussion Topic  RE: Special Word of the Moment (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
>The flumadiddle word of the day just now spotted this -- to maintain rhythmic balance it would ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Groundhog's Day (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
>rehashing something can be interesting ha! it's the old YART conundrum. you bring up an old dis......
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Discussion Topic  RE: OED requests (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
>Interesting that you received a reply.. well, I see this comment didn't make the grade. ; ) wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: OED requests (in Potpourri) by tsuwm
FWIW: I wrote to Jesse S. some time ago regarding new entries into OED (including epicaricacy). His ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Abecedarian insults (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
1. Bald, without hair. Obs. 2. Of birds: Unfledged, without feathers. b. Applied to the down ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bizarre etymologies (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
a napron <> an apron this sort of "false division" is known linguistically as metanalysis....
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Pronoun of Indefinite Gender (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
>Is it to be sanctioned? sanction (quoting Compact Oxford English Dictionary ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: BLUFFING GAME: setenant (in Wordplay) by tsuwm
>it was always written se-tenant. this was the source of my comment on whether I was thinking o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: BLUFFING GAME: setenant (in Wordplay) by tsuwm
well, I'm not sure that it's the same word, but I think #2 matches the definition of something simil......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The press reflects on Reagan (in The Vocabulary Forum) by tsuwm
>[Does the quotation below use this word incorrectly?] "Reagan thus serves as a talisman of what ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decimation and changes of meaning (in Questions & Answers about Words) by tsuwm
I bring this thread back for two reasons: 1) friday's wwftd was: vigesimation the act of putting t......
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