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Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
I agree entirely that they're distinct; and a literate person should feel the difference as they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Foundering (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those metaphors aren't quite dead yet. I've got an image of the M.V. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English [t] is alveolar, with the tip of the tongue against the alveolar ridge just behind the teeth......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Old Irish had the [θ] sound, but in Modern Irish it's become [h]. I'm not exactly sure of Scot......
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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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: Antebellum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To me 'antebellum' only ever means US pre-Civil-War, as a descriptor of architecture, social conditi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Icelandic Names (in Potpourri) by aput
They use not just an -s- but whatever the appropriate possessive ending is. The son of Ólafur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: calc- (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've tracked it through Perseus, and I'm going to guess the shift of meaning came from the art of co......
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