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Discussion Topic  RE: Loer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The rendering 'O Herr' certainly suggests it's just a spelling variant of 'lor'. I don't know what t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The key pair is the noun 'advice' and verb 'advise'. I'm not 100% sure that what I'm about to say is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ukraine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English uses 'the' either when there's an explicit toponym with a qualifier (the United Kingdom, the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quaquaversal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've got to mention my favourite Maltese word, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quaquaversal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well, anything with ......
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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: "Vanilla" - etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Earlier ......
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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: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
To clarify, there are two separate words here. There is 'geezer', an old man, from an earlier form '......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The hot water boiler is usually spelt geyser, and is pronounced the same as geezer the old man. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think I've ever come across the word 'reparable'. It would for me be stressed on the first s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dictionaries lag behind the times. I say [3:] ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'zebra' is usually ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That quote ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's interesting, I own Spencer and Zwicky and can check around it. They only use 'metanalysis' on......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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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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