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Discussion Topic  RE: Dry Wit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Full marks to Stoppard, since his Broca's region was first fixed on Czech. But he got to England by......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Oh yeah, Arnie? Then what about the Alien and Sedulous Act of 1798? ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Whereas "assiduous" 1538, from L. assiduus "busy, incessant, continual, constant," from assidere "t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Well, "sedulous" screams "seditious" to the ear. Not a bad thing I suppose, if you are in diehard o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jane Austen #3 (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
"Ineffective, outmoded, obsolete, sent out to pasture." UK term "superannuation fund" carries a sad......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Bell" Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing Game: BOUSTROPHEDONIC (in Wordplay) by Robert Arvanitis
Pleasure in petting the pet is pet-hedonics...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Phonics are Phun (in Wordplay) by Robert Arvanitis
Excellent! It's a great pleasure to be able to tap into the collective talent here....
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Discussion Topic  Phonics are Phun (in Wordplay) by Robert Arvanitis
A phirst grader's class assignment -- phind words with "ch" in the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing Game: BOUSTROPHEDONIC (in Wordplay) by Robert Arvanitis
I recuse myself from answering the true meaning, being Greek. However, I note that an alternative p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dry Wit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
And from ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dry Wit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Also on the topic of wet/dry, an interesting contrast between American and Japanese culture and perc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dry Wit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Wait, kalleh. Isn't a failed joke sometimes called a "damp squib?"...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dry Wit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
I assure this august body, that my own ethnic heritage in no way influences my preference for the cl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I'll do that for you! (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
There is a sense of the "involuntary" about words like scapegoat, whipping boy, and fall guy. On a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I'll do that for you! (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Doubt that auceps used equus... But in "Jeremiah Johnson," old trapper shows Robert Redford how to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
If we call those who use the television "viewers," is it too much to hope we may call those who use ......
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