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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: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's pronounced [tsunami] (with the distinctive Japanese form of [u], which doesn't concern us). It......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, the Japanese is /tunami/, pronounced [tsunami]. I find initial [ts] easy to say, so I pronounce......
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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: 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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm. I said final stress was comparatively rare. That's not right, not on verbs. What's rare is final......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The noun stress is unchanged; in fact the new verb stress comes from the noun. The nouns have second......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a very recent thing. Some people with the southern English accent have switched to initial s......
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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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