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Discussion Topic  RE: yclept (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A word only ever used facetiously. Archaism belongs in carefully archaic styles. Definitely to be av......
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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: Banned? Barred? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ban and bann are indeed related: the basic original sense is 'proclamation'. The Proto-Indo-European......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Size-up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Earlier senses in the OED are ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by aput
I wouldn't trust the argument of anyone using Greek words in English as if they captured some nice d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Size-up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Band (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is why the only dictionary I use is Oxford, because they give senses in historical sequence so ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: like a broken record (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Surely the expression is older. Vinyl records scratch but don't break, as far as I recall: it was sh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A good example of the randomness of change at the supermarket today. Change is often presented as if......
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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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