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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Another apostrophe question (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: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
centrally-located... Well we've taken in a few new countries since I first had that thought. Obvious......
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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: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've always thought that instead of shuttling people to Strasbourg and Brussels, the headquarters sh......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: New words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would presume the contemporary use of 'defenestration' is in removing Windows -- to install Linux ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gestures (in Potpourri) by aput
Very American, I think. I've never seen it used, but I grew up seeing it depicted in the cartoons in......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Phonics (in Potpourri) by aput
The phonemes: in my accent there are about 44 phonemes, 24 consonants and 20 vowels. In some other a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, it's standard English in the adverbial sense (pretty big)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have guessed this was modernish (19th or late-18th century) slang, but evidently it goes rig......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ukraine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English uses 'the' either when there's an explicit toponym with a qualifier (the United Kingdom, the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quaquaversal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've got to mention my favourite Maltese word, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quaquaversal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well, anything with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by aput
Let's see if I've got this right... Principle 1. Structuring meaning multidimensionally is cocreati......
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