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Discussion Topic  RE: The Dominant Animals: Insects (in The Vocabulary Forum) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Eponym" or "reference"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: bald-faced vs. bold-faced (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Did not men of yore swear by their beards?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: songster (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The suffix -......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Eponym" or "reference"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I don't know. I think of eponyms as nouns, and this is the adjectival form of the professor name....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Eponym" or "reference"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
It's possible, but historians, like other academics, tend to use shorthand notations like this all t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English to Modern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
While there is more mutual intelligibility (at least in the written versions) between Middle English......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English to Modern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I'd call it a translation, because Old, Middle, and Present-Day English are different languages....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Blasphemy (in Potpourri) by zmježd
Profane is another one of those terms that make you scratch your head. Latin ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "anabasis" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The "military retreat" meaning of anabasis seems to stem from Xenophon's book ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Blasphemy (in Potpourri) by zmježd
A good dictionary lists the words in a language, all of their meanings and usages. On hacker, see th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Well, I was misinformed about the OED's policy on inkhorn terms. They must have ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I would say that the first occurence of a foreign word in the literature does not support its being ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thank-you-ma'am (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I have run into the etymology in one of Charles E Funk's books, but, alas, not a thank-you-ma'am in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Auschwitz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
It may have to do with Belsen being liberated by the British Army and Auschwitz being liberated by t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I've never had a problem with the Greek word for schadenfreude. It is επιχαιρεκακια. After all, it i......
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