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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 ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Scandinavian language(s) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputThis is the classic example of the language being a dialect with an army and a navy. If the three we...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputI don't get AWAD words, so maybe I'm just repeating what they're saying, but it is surprising the OE...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputArgh! But it's not how the Greeks think! It's just a bunch of words. They haven't got some concept P...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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The Art of the Book (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aputAlmost all the uses of the word on the Web are in collocations like 'portolan atlas', 'portolan char...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputAput's Postulate: for any statement 'X has n words for Y' made in a language L, the statement 'L has...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aputContractions are a bit different: virtually none of the contractions of pronoun + verb are pronounce...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aputMy rule is to write what I say, which is Charles's and Thomas's, with these familiar names. But euph...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by aputSt Thomas' is associated with two saints called Thomas, the Apostle and à Becket. It was, I t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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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...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Icelandic Names (in Potpourri) by aputThey use not just an -s- but whatever the appropriate possessive ending is. The son of Ólafur...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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(Condolence) Letter from America (in The Written Word) by aputunder ground: a mole or deceased underground: in a region beneath the ground hm, curious... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word
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Prognostication (in Potpourri) by aputThe telephone was invented by an Italian living in Cuba, Antonio Meucci. Bell unfairly got the credi...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Knowledgeableness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputIn that context, I can't see much difference in replacing 'knowledgeableness' with 'knowledge', but ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aputThat other site is a list counted by different words: that is, ignoring the fact that 'the' and othe...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputThe literal translation 'Dig I cannot; to beg I am ashamed' sounds passable to me. They must have fe...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aputI don't know a literary device called juxtaposition. Chiasmus isn't just placing things next to each...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aputWell Jane accounts for 284 of the J's, but you expect rather a lot of J names. It's only the Z's tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aputI make it 947 Z's, in the edition on the 'Republic of Pemberley', but close enough. But Z has such a...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aputA live experiment on a mini-corpus: the first thousand words of ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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