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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Probably the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, I meant you write 'my mom knit, but I didn't', whereas I would write 'knitted' for that past ten......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by aput
Cat: I've seen the photos and I second Kalleh....
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
SOED dates 'wool' sense ......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scruples (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The distinction is in Latin, and they were borrowed separately. Latin had a word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
While 'dibs' is grammatically normal ('I've got dibs on the X', 'to call dibs on X'), 'bags' is most......
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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: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Naturally. But we sent them all to the colonies for the convicts to play with....
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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: 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: The Color of Words (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm not synaesthetic by any means, but I find I have vague associations of that kind. I suspect they......
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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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