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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: 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: 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: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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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: 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: 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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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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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