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Discussion Topic  RE: Spam, Beyssian filters and word-salad (in The Written Word) by aput
The way to avoid the word-salad on the Web is (for now) surprisingly simple. All those spam pages ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Mostly diacritics indicate some differing pronunciation, but not always. The circumflex in French is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't an answer, but I'll point out there are probably more consonants in some of those words: t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
When I do Web-hit tests I sometimes rerun them to eliminate what seem to be biases in the top result......
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Poll  RE: 'concrete' - pronunciation? regional? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Initial stress only, though I have free variation between CON- and CONG-. I've never heard con-CRETE......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
I agree entirely that they're distinct; and a literate person should feel the difference as they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Foundering (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those metaphors aren't quite dead yet. I've got an image of the M.V. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As far as I know none of the errors are in the original 1913 dictionary (though I have a very low op......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English [t] is alveolar, with the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge just behind the teeth......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Old Irish had the [θ] sound, but in Modern Irish it's become [h]. I'm not exactly sure of Scot......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I could play this game all day. The next non-word is on page ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Just for a giggle I thought I'd see how far ahead I needed to look to find a fictitious word. On the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, well that's where it comes from: half the on-line dictionaries are just copies of the out-of-cop......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dusting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not 'is coming' but 'has come'. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's just an error. Some modern on-line dictionary has got their lines confused and imported the s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vive la difference! (in Potpourri) by aput
In fact, without looking down at your ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
There is no convenient English respelling for the schwa. I prefer to use 'a' when possible, so JAG-y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
I say ["dZægju@] with a final schwa. I don't hear advertisements, nor frequent the rich, nor t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
I've noticed Americans sometimes think British usage is always to use plural here, but this is proba......
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