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Discussion Topic  Nation vs. Country (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What's the difference between a 'nation' and a 'country'? Apparently Chinese has only one word, and ......
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Discussion Topic  Nautical miles (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Having just learned that 200 nautical miles equals 230 miles, I wondered how we got a different meas......
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Discussion Topic  What is an "island"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
We've all seen small islands, or even tiny ones in a river. Instinctively, we'll call some bits of ......
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Discussion Topic  Poetry of Journal (in The Written Word) by shufitz
From the paper: ......
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Discussion Topic  Courtship Cads (in Potpourri) by shufitz
For Valentine's day we talked about ......
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Discussion Topic  Uchronia (in Potpourri) by shufitz
How would history been different if .........
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Discussion Topic  Getting a Handle on Gambling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
The paper is full of articles about the Super Bowl (the championship game of US professional footbal......
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Discussion Topic  The one-finger salute (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
An editorialist tells that if he had been reporting from Iraq, this is the dispatch he'd have sent:......
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Discussion Topic  Old Dictionaries (in The Written Word) by shufitz
To my surprise, the various old dictionaries don't appear to be available on-line. I could find no c......
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Discussion Topic  cognates: 'moon' and 'month' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
nevau, noting that the english words meaning moon, month are cognates, ......
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Discussion Topic  "Ligature" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
I've been vaguely aware of the word ......
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Discussion Topic  OED includes words never found in use (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
We tend to think of OED as the authority defining 'what is a word': what OED includes counts as a wo......
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Discussion Topic  New term: "drill down" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
One nice thing about driving long distance is that as you listen to the radio for diversion, you may......
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Discussion Topic  "Tit for tat" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
CW used the phrase "tit for tat". Where does that phrase come from? A little googling turned up an ......
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Discussion Topic  Whatchamacallits and doohickies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What do you call the something that's on-the-tip-of-my-tongue-but-I-can't-think-of-the-word-for-it?...
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Discussion Topic  Origin of "PU" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Why does 'PU' refer to a bad smell?...
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Discussion Topic  "Eating crow" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
How did 'to eat crow' come to mean 'to humbly admit error'?...
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Discussion Topic  European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
The countries in the EU have different languages. To avoid offending any country, the EU uses each a......
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Discussion Topic  "Neck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
One more ......
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Discussion Topic  Not sarcasm; not irony ... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What would you call the literary device being used in this witty description I came across while rea......
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