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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
First, in general linguists don't know causes of historical change. There is not much in the way of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Effects of 1066 (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English isn't really a blend. It's a Germanic language the same as any other, Middle English being a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Vanilla" - etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Earlier ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The suffixes phonetically conflated at the end of OE: so -e -a -u all became -ə [schwa or -e if......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
jheem: the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
"Been through the middle of" looks like a folk etymology or mondegreen by someone who doesn't unders......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Thought of another one: in fan fiction writers often concentrate on a particular relationship, such ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
To clarify, there are two separate words here. There is 'geezer', an old man, from an earlier form '......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The hot water boiler is usually spelt geyser, and is pronounced the same as geezer the old man. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> The only other suffix I know of that's been elevated to word status is ism ish...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Improper grammar? If so, what' the term for it? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think it's actually ungrammatical. It's a blend of constructions. A pair such as 'shot and stabbed......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The English sense 'stupid' owes its present popularity to the influence of German ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: hapax logomenon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hapaxlegomenon is a property of corpora, and is quite different from a claim of invention. Typically......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Meanings, "pro-" and "con" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Pro and con' is a mediaeval abbreviation for 'pro and contra', where ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the initial stress on the verbs is a recent development, a levelling of the difference. In s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ellipses (in Potpourri) by aput
I regard dashes and ellipses are complementary. A dash shows a suddenly interrupted thought, an elli......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I want to scream over the tannoy announcements, 'We're not customers! We're passengers!'. And it mak......
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Discussion Topic  RE: red states; blue states; battleground states (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I was surprised to see this recently, and at first thought I was reading the map wrong. Here the col......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think I've ever come across the word 'reparable'. It would for me be stressed on the first s......
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