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Discussion Topic  RE: like a broken record (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Surely the expression is older. Vinyl records scratch but don't break, as far as I recall: it was sh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A good example of the randomness of change at the supermarket today. Change is often presented as if......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
First, in general linguists don't know causes of historical change. There is not much in the way of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The suffixes phonetically conflated at the end of OE: so -e -a -u all became -ə [schwa or -e if......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The English sense 'stupid' owes its present popularity to the influence of German ......
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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: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the initial stress on the verbs is a recent development, a levelling of the difference. In s......
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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: 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: 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: Middle English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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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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