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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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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: 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: lie/lay (in The Written Word) by aput
If the Beatles put an [r] in 'saw them', it was by trying to use an American accent. It's not natura......
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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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