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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Comic Germanicisms (in The Written Word) by aput
By far the simplest way if you want an é is to spot that there is already one above you, in the word......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I forget what the ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another apostrophe question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: 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: 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: 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: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The 'pale' horse was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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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