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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: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The term I've heard of for it is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word Creativity Needed! (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caliph (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: "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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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Homonym is a catch-all term for two words that are the same: could be same sound (homophone), same s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Calque: using a word or words that has a non-standard sense in one language and borrowing that same ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually this doesn't seem to be clear. The regimen is from a Greek word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fluids (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The doctors' advice is slightly odd, since fluid and liquid mean exactly the same thing in this cont......
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