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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, I meant you write 'my mom knit, but I didn't', whereas I would write 'knitted' for that past ten......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
SOED dates 'wool' sense ......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by aput
Here's a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hugo's How To Avoid Incorrect English (in Potpourri) by aput
Perhaps ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mixed roots (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
television, monolingual, monoplane...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elide (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've only ever seen it in the phonetic sense, but the dictionary says it can mean 'strike out, suppr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Detective Descriptors (in Potpourri) by aput
Blind: Longstreet. I can't remember anything about the show, but after Ironside it seemed they were ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: An etymology question (in Potpourri) by aput
Rather the opposite: comfort = strengthen (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
One of my favourite terms in economics is 'dead cat bounce': the apparent upturn in the economy or a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Color of Words (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm not synaesthetic by any means, but I find I have vague associations of that kind. I suspect they......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
Well my Chambers includes 'boasting, a bold lie' as one of the senses, but doesn't mark it as from a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Unambiguous Ambiguities (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
I would have thought a more unambiguous pair of homographs would be harder to find. I don't see how ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
There are about 4000 ghits for "negative bounce", half of which are for Kerry. Almost all the rest a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
Ah, I'd seen that before, the British Library archive. Unfortunately I've just got a script error tr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by aput
The original game I know as steeplechasing. There's also a game called hare and hounds, which I woul......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dirty words (politicaly speaking) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Moot' and 'meet' were affected by two regular vowel changes. The verb 'meet' is an umlaut of the no......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Even if some uses of 'infer' or 'moot' were solecisms, or non-standard in some clear way, there is u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Red shift (science question, not words) (in Potpourri) by aput
Stars don't move apart from each other at constant rates. The Hubble proportion only works for galax......
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