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Discussion Topic  RE: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Perhaps they needed to get their head of etymology in to explain that ......
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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: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
One of my favourite terms in economics is 'dead cat bounce': the apparent upturn in the economy or a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
Well my Chambers includes 'boasting, a bold lie' as one of the senses, but doesn't mark it as from a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Unambiguous Ambiguities (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
I would have thought a more unambiguous pair of homographs would be harder to find. I don't see how ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
There are about 4000 ghits for "negative bounce", half of which are for Kerry. Almost all the rest a......
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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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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: Immigration vs. Emigration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, like ......
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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: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The title of editor is totally self-appointed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Hunter passage seems fairly clear in meaning to me, though rather wordy, and as an editor I'd qu......
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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: @#*!#*! Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
I don't think there's anything wrong with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Doth (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think so. ......
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