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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: (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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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
Well Jane accounts for 284 of the J's, but you expect rather a lot of J names. It's only the Z's tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
I make it 947 Z's, in the edition on the 'Republic of Pemberley', but close enough. But Z has such a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
A live experiment on a mini-corpus: the first thousand words of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
Z. Letter frequencies were counted in the nineteenth century so that typesetters would have suitabl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Defective lexical items" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
["aput] Now don't get started on my geography. My first attempts were things like 'Oats is noted fo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vocabulary Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There was no Greek word for 'word' as such, so 'logophile' is as good as any. But if you're trying t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Defective lexical items" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The number is given by agreement. 'Oats' is plural by most tests: Wheat is grown in Canada. Oats ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caliph (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caliph (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The caliph (Arabic ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My daughter's boyfriend... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
1. 'Partner' strikes me as the established term now. It wasn't just ten years ago: I didn't know how......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Defective lexical items" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes I did have. jheem is right: there's a fundamental grammatical difference between count and mass......
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