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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: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: 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: Pronunciations and Mispronunciations (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: binomial (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or what the dictionary says is an insufficient guide to usage. This is a word that has two common co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Short on' sounds highly dialectal to me, and I'd always say 'short of'. I can never work out what ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dispersing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "syntopic" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I learnt 'synoptic' from weather charts, and for a long time that was the only thing I knew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Twenty O Six (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me the years of this decade are only two thousand and six, not twenty oh six (we don't have the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cryptozoology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Certainly. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about many of the cryptid stories -- just very v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I should clarify that I don't want to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's why I was looking for examples of 'as X as' and 'more X than', because they show X is an adje......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reoccur; recur (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I look rather askance at 'reoccur': for me the natural term for this is 'recur', and I think I've ch......
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