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Discussion Topic  RE: Strange Pastry Names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The names of many foodstuffs can be kind of weird. Some people call Danish pastries snails. There ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
I know, Kalleh. It's just easier for me to mark all my edits, so I don't forget on other boards. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
And Germans, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
Bachelor does not have the connotation of gayness for me. This reminded me of a sample question in a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Patois (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
One of the distinctions between a pidgin and a creole is that the former is not the native language ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
Awfully good, very false ... situation normal?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Patois (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I've always felt it was a slightly more pejorative term for a dialect. [addendum: Fr ......
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Discussion Topic  chekovista (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I was just reminded over the weekend about Pavel Chekov, a character from the original TV show ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
The Romans had a letter that looked a lot like a V and it stood for both a vowel, modern u, and a co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by zmježd
Whenever I use the plural of "one", I find myself wondering out loud: "what would my friendly neighb......
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Discussion Topic  segway into an eggcorn (in Potpourri) by zmježd
I love when folks get riled up ......
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Discussion Topic  machinima (in Potpourri) by zmježd
There was ......
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Discussion Topic  datum and data (in Potpourri) by zmježd
I heard an interesting utterance yesterday on the radio. The person speaking, an MD, was taking abou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reading the Signs (in The Written Word) by zmježd
Ironically, if Latin infinitives were like the English, Roman writers would split them. It is a comm......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Books that should have been movies. (in Potpourri) by zmježd
The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton; Rigodon (Rigadoon) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline; À rebours (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Geoff. I just came across this video on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cyril, Methodius, and Old Slavic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The translation of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic (OCS, aka Old Bulgarian) was done in the 9th c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Latin and Grek in biology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Partially a remnant of everybody doing serious writing in Latin. Taxonomy and the ISV (Internation S......
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Discussion Topic  RE: They aren't gerunds, so what are they? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Less to do with grammaticality, and more to do with semantics. For me, ......
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