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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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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: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I did some work for a borough council on their ethnic monitoring, and their forms had two further bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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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: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Naturally. But we sent them all to the colonies for the convicts to play with....
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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: Gantlet vs. gauntlet (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen the spelling 'gantlet' in actual use, but apparently it's an American variant for bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Perhaps they needed to get their head of etymology in to explain that ......
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