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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, it's a pure spelling error: 260 ghits is nothing, nowhere near enough to give it any legitimacy.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
With group nouns (group, tribe, team, committee) both are widely used, and they're much more commonl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This hadn't occurred to me; but there are 260 Google hits for ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
Disagree with jheem. It's the stakeholders participating: plural subject. Recast it with simpler wor......
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Discussion Topic  RE: trepidacious or trepidatious? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There are three distinct Latin endings that have been conflated into one English sound. All three ha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Boss and Bossy (the cow) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is brought in for its articles: masculine ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
One of the things most seared into my brain under the Death to Marketing list was seeing a tube of t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Boss and Bossy (the cow) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
And which is original, Bosporus or Bosphorus? I've never managed to work it out; both make sense, an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Motile vs. Mobile (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think of 'motile' as referring to things like flagella and cilia that can move in place, either to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Baseball words in England (in Potpourri) by aput
'Fan' is surprising because it doesn't even sound like an Americanism. Of the rest, a few would be ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scandinavian language(s) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is the classic example of the language being a dialect with an army and a navy. If the three we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't get AWAD words, so maybe I'm just repeating what they're saying, but it is surprising the OE......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Argh! But it's not how the Greeks think! It's just a bunch of words. They haven't got some concept P......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Art of the Book (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
Almost all the uses of the word on the Web are in collocations like 'portolan atlas', 'portolan char......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Aput's Postulate: for any statement 'X has n words for Y' made in a language L, the statement 'L has......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aput
Contractions are a bit different: virtually none of the contractions of pronoun + verb are pronounce......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aput
My rule is to write what I say, which is Charles's and Thomas's, with these familiar names. But euph......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My daughter's boyfriend... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
On another board this question came up and a Swedish woman introduced the to-her useful word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aput
St Thomas' is associated with two saints called Thomas, the Apostle and à Becket. It was, I t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Risible/Ludicrous/Ridiculous (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Risible' and 'ridiculous' came into English at about the same time, c. 1550, but with quite differe......
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