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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
Now that's very interesting. I thought Lott's wording was slightly strange. Of course the two words ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chameleon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, the Ancient Greek [kh] [ph] [th] sounds seem to have changed to their Modern Greek values [x] [......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chameleon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek chi changed from a [kh] sound to the [x] sound of Russian some time after the Classical pe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
The dangers of false memories! I'd only seen the Truman picture a few times, and my memory had even ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chameleon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Almost always. All those words listed above illustrate it. Exception to spelling: camomile (optiona......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this a "metaphor"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
If I had to distinguish them: Metaphor: my laziness is me going underground for summer. Figurative......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
You know, I always thought that headline was "Dewey Wins". Evidently so do quite a few other people:......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms from Mathematics (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
I don't think 'iff' is a word, as it's pronounced 'if and only if', i.e. as an abbreviation. In cont......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scoundrel vs. Abscond (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's probably just coincidence: no reason to think otherwise. But a not unreasonable story can be m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chameleon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Same answer as for any Greek word with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
On subject/object marking, I'm not sure of the details, but most of these apes were taught ASL, and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
(Actually, "the" criterion was wrong, but it's the criterion that's pertinent here.) Well, organiza......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
Intonation is fine as part of a word: human-English isn't tonal but dog-English presumably is. You c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dog's vocabulary (in Potpourri) by aput
I don't think there's much debate among linguists. We all know dogs can understand words; Rico's abi......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not interchangeable (as relative clause markers -- that both have other meanings can be take......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Extra syllables (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Epenthesis is the general term forn insertion of sounds. But in the case of tetrasyllabic 'resemblin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
Sharp differentiation between dialects or accents is usually illusory. If two dialects are distingui......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Language Log had some problems this morning. They're back up now, and are usually quite reliable. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Serendipitously, Geoff Pullum ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
As jheem says, it's basically amount of time. There are other factors, such as degree of isolation, ......
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