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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
That there is a difference between how languages divide up the world is an interesting point, and an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What do you think? (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh-oh. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Comic Germanicisms (in The Written Word) by aput
By far the simplest way if you want an é is to spot that there is already one above you, in the word......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "false friends" (in Potpourri) by aput
I wouldn't say ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I forget what the ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another apostrophe question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I give myself 7/10, not too bad I suppose for one of the few occasions when I can't be bothered ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Where out of this World (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I do think it's much over-used these days. Though Fowler complained of it as a cliché in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to that, I'd guess they got it from some writer who used 'dialect' -- someone like Scott, perhaps......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The rendering 'O Herr' certainly suggests it's just a spelling variant of 'lor'. I don't know what t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: rat fink (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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