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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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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: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the initial stress on the verbs is a recent development, a levelling of the difference. In s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The year of the Chav (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm really lost on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ellipses (in Potpourri) by aput
I regard dashes and ellipses are complementary. A dash shows a suddenly interrupted thought, an elli......
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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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Richelieu (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It seems to be an error of allusion. I suspect they were thinking of Père Joseph, the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Taino hurricane (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
These are all terms for artefacts, plants, and so on that were new to the Europeans, so they would h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Middle English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
It's not a special kind of language, it's just a dialect of English like any other. The difference i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh yes, quite serious. As I remember, the public signs around the parliament in Edinburgh are only i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Briti?ism (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
During the recent series of civil wars in Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander wrote a letter to the p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Probably the ......
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