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Discussion Topic  RE: Royal Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the Court Circular, the daily gazette of royal appointments, they explicitly alternate: The Prin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mixed roots (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
television, monolingual, monoplane...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elide (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've only ever seen it in the phonetic sense, but the dictionary says it can mean 'strike out, suppr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Detective Descriptors (in Potpourri) by aput
Blind: Longstreet. I can't remember anything about the show, but after Ironside it seemed they were ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gantlet vs. gauntlet (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen the spelling 'gantlet' in actual use, but apparently it's an American variant for bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: An etymology question (in Potpourri) by aput
Rather the opposite: comfort = strengthen (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
Ah, I'd seen that before, the British Library archive. Unfortunately I've just got a script error tr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dirty words (politicaly speaking) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Moot' and 'meet' were affected by two regular vowel changes. The verb 'meet' is an umlaut of the no......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Even if some uses of 'infer' or 'moot' were solecisms, or non-standard in some clear way, there is u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Red shift (science question, not words) (in Potpourri) by aput
Stars don't move apart from each other at constant rates. The Hubble proportion only works for galax......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Canceled vs. Cancelled (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I phrased my original answer as 'the inflected double -ll- is reduced to single -l-', whereas logic ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Subtle distinctions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I'm with jheem here (naturally). I'm pretty sure you can't take a word in isolation and say what its......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Canceled vs. Cancelled (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is an American vs The Rest Of Us difference. In American spelling the inflected double -ll- is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Senior Moment (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere alcohol has that effect too. In the quantities I get through, anywa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Effect" vs. "Affect" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There's a pretty standard usage difference: indexes are lists at the back of books, indices are subs......
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Discussion Topic  RE: New translation of the New Testament (in The Written Word) by aput
On ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: @#*!#*! Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
I don't think there's anything wrong with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Letter sequences where any vowel will work (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
PAT, PET, PIT, POT, PUT and BAT, BET, BIT, BOT, BUT [where BOT = (1) to borrow, bum; (2) a small com......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Doth (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think so. ......
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