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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: The year of the Chav (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm really lost on ......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Panopticon Effect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dictionaries lag behind the times. I say [3:] ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'zebra' is usually ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by aput
Funny how no-one ever fulminates about 'good' or 'big' or 'long'. That shows the animus against 'nic......
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Discussion Topic  RE: proscribe (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That quote ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "None is" vs. "None are" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'none' ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's interesting, I own Spencer and Zwicky and can check around it. They only use 'metanalysis' on......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Richelieu (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It seems to be an error of allusion. I suspect they were thinking of Père Joseph, the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Taino hurricane (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
These are all terms for artefacts, plants, and so on that were new to the Europeans, so they would h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Middle English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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