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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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......
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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: (Condolence) Letter from America (in The Written Word) by aput
under ground: a mole or deceased underground: in a region beneath the ground hm, curious...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prognostication (in Potpourri) by aput
The telephone was invented by an Italian living in Cuba, Antonio Meucci. Bell unfairly got the credi......
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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: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
That other site is a list counted by different words: that is, ignoring the fact that 'the' and othe......
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