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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by aput
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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: Improper grammar? If so, what' the term for it? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think it's actually ungrammatical. It's a blend of constructions. A pair such as 'shot and stabbed......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The English sense 'stupid' owes its present popularity to the influence of German ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: hapax logomenon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hapaxlegomenon is a property of corpora, and is quite different from a claim of invention. Typically......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Meanings, "pro-" and "con" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Pro and con' is a mediaeval abbreviation for 'pro and contra', where ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I want to scream over the tannoy announcements, 'We're not customers! We're passengers!'. And it mak......
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Discussion Topic  RE: red states; blue states; battleground states (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I was surprised to see this recently, and at first thought I was reading the map wrong. Here the col......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language development (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
None of those corresponds very closely with anything I know, though none is completely implausible a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by aput
Funny how no-one ever fulminates about 'good' or 'big' or 'long'. That shows the animus against 'nic......
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Discussion Topic  RE: proscribe (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "None is" vs. "None are" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'none' ......
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