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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Just for a giggle I thought I'd see how far ahead I needed to look to find a fictitious word. On the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, well that's where it comes from: half the on-line dictionaries are just copies of the out-of-cop......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's just an error. Some modern on-line dictionary has got their lines confused and imported the s......
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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: 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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Knowledgeableness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In that context, I can't see much difference in replacing 'knowledgeableness' with 'knowledge', but ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The literal translation 'Dig I cannot; to beg I am ashamed' sounds passable to me. They must have fe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't know a literary device called juxtaposition. Chiasmus isn't just placing things next to each......
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