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Discussion Topic  RE: Ramone, etc. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This fits a general rule of English phonology: nouns don't have final stress, unless they end in cer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The book that suggests female activities were specifically important to language evolution is probab......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem with the Ancient Greek words is more that we're not sure what exactly they meant. There ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some languages have only two basic colour words (warm/dark and light/cool); others have three (red s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Misuse of Words - What annoys you? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Technically that's rubbish. In English (that's English the human language, not the made-up imaginary......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Misuse of Words - What annoys you? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They aren't being misused. Apart from 'adaption', which I don't know that I've ever heard or seen, a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
You would only be pronouncing ......
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Discussion Topic  metaphor chop suey (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm proofing a very large book at the moment; it's largely written on the principle that if one meta......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
He was no more than a name to me; one hears of fashionable figures but often doesn't get why they're......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
Japanese borrowings from English have a few interesting peculiarities. Because Japanese has mainly o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'When he crossed the Tiber' is subordinated by the conjunction 'when', and can't stand on its own (e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No main clause verbs. All the verbs in there are dependent on noun phrases or in subordinate clauses......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Just practice? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Both senses are almost the same age: it first meant 'perform a skill' (1500 or a bit before), then s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation again... (in Potpourri) by aput
Degree of stress is relative. If EMpire is pronounced with the vowels it normally has, it's impossib......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bangs vs. Fringe (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some Americanisms are familiar, and even in use here, but not 'bangs'. I wouldn't expect people to k......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name That Book! Help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek root for 'name' is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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