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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: 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: 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: "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
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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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Dr Seuss's cat (in Potpourri) by aput
Is it just me or does the imprint 'Tapir, Trondheim' not inspire sober confidence? Various issues h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Enquire vs. Inquire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, Fowler means 'enquire' is a formal word for 'ask'. You enquire what the time is, or when the nex......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not connected, not in Japanese anyway. Vowels can be long or short: a short vowel has one mora, a lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A tone language or tonal language uses pitch as an intrinsic part of the meaning. A classic example ......
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