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Discussion Topic  RE: Language development (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
None of those corresponds very closely with anything I know, though none is completely implausible a......
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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: "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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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
It's not a special kind of language, it's just a dialect of English like any other. The difference i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh yes, quite serious. As I remember, the public signs around the parliament in Edinburgh are only i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Briti?ism (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
During the recent series of civil wars in Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander wrote a letter to the p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Probably the ......
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