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Discussion Topic  RE: eyes on -ize/-ise (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
-ize was widely used about 300 years ago, then -ise came (back?) in in Britain later. Around 1900 O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Homophonic (in The Written Word) by aput
It's to do the U as in UNIT with the Y sound in front of it. The sound change in England (and Austr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Potter Words and Wordplay; later books (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
Did Rowling use 'enervate' at all? No example is given. The spell command 'Ennervate', as with all h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wherefore why? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the case of English deadjectivals (derivatives from adjectives), '-ness' is the only freely produ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Anantapodoton is given there as a specific form of anapodoton, closer to the required sense. I'm not......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
*is puzzled* Link is to Silva Rhetoricae, whose main page is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The closest I can find is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology of "counting" terms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dialect boundaries usually don't exist at all when you look at them in close enough detail. Where yo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology: lasagna (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Curiously, the plural ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation again... (in Potpourri) by aput
I can't speak for 'realtor', which doesn't exist in Britain, but the other is really two words, 'jew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, not German, Germanic. Common ancestor of English, German/Dutch, and Scandinavian....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Lock the hair (OE ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Andragogy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Adjectives from proper nouns (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In mathematics removal of the capital is a high honour, not accorded to all eponyms: Hermite is comm......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Colors of Spring" -- and others (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ntrstng thry (in The Written Word) by aput
ntllgbl r nntllgbl?...
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