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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: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not the same: jerry-building is incompetent, but jury-rigging is merely temporary, and is co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Phonetically, jerry-rig seems to be an alteration of jury-rig by association with the unrelated and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well this is interesting. The original term is jury-mast, a temporary or helping mast, and from that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Euphemisms for Sexual Intercourse (in Potpourri) by aput
discussing Ugandan affairs...
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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: Horsey Talk (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Pig's trotters are, I think, pig's feet used as an article of food. And no, I've never heard of anyo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Subordinate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It sounds like a formal, neutral term to me. I do detect that there could be a pejorative whiff abou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Most important book? (in The Written Word) by aput
Coming ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
All of the clones should have some kind of identifying small print like "ripped off Wikipedia under ......
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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: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those meanings look right on what I know: el-i melek 'god-my king', b-o 'in-him', na`m-i 'pleasant-m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is no way you can get any part of "compassionate friend" out of the Hebrew (or in fact Moabite......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ruthless (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's just the abstract noun of 'rue' = regret, as 'truth' and 'troth' are from 'trow' = believe, or ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I propose wikipollution. When I look up factual information now I need to try and work out what to s......
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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: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
You would only be pronouncing ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
If teachers "correct" children who say it, then it's grammatical for the children, because it's what......
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