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Discussion Topic  RE: Just practice? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Both senses are almost the same age: it first meant 'perform a skill' (1500 or a bit before), then s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Romance (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually it is an interesting specialization, since it must be quite recent: until well into the twe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Romance (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is fairly involved. Originally it seems to have been a distinction between 'Latin' and 'Roman',......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is an "island"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
How about a big sharp rock in the middle of nowhere? One such is one of the remaining glories of the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nautical miles (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
And to confuse it further, the nautical mile and the knot are ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quieten (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Very common once as a deadjectival causative: blacken, whiten, redden, gladden, madden, dampen, broa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prophyla_ic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quieten (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ah, the pleasures of owning a proper dictionary. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Situated Cognition (in Potpourri) by aput
I have no idea what is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thusly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's certainly a word, because lots of people use it; and we all know what it means. It's a recentl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Parameter/Perimeter (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't encountered this usage in the wild, only in discussion of it. Neither is quite natural for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brain Freeze (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The usual term is ice-cream headache, though I've also seen cold stimulus headache. Apparently not e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
Bailey is now underway in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have thought it was the amount handled (by the bookies)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek root for 'name' is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by aput
That's annoying. I've never even heard of .djvu, and am not interested in downloading YA proprietary......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "gallows": why the plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bookworm (in Potpourri) by aput
I would agree with neveu: a theory in science is a consistent set of principles that generates expla......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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