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Discussion Topic  RE: No, it has nothing to do with sex (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
...sounds like a fine metaphor to me. Edwards won in his home state, but having won there is not r......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
..that is, is language a virus? Neal Stephenson explored the possibility in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old books NOT like old wines (in The Written Word) by haberdasher
(brushing off a _very_ thick film of dust and cobwebs) Lessee now, as I recall, I read that about te......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Can "express" be an intransitive verb? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
...and yet it doesn't seem unlikely to have someone order merchandise and be happy to hear "We'll ex......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
That's all right, you should see what I think are the names of the current states in Africa!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Pakistan springs to mind immediately...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I think this particular Prions thread just replicated itself mysteriously ! Perhaps the other one c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Illinois announces its poet laureate! (in The Written Word) by haberdasher
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by haberdasher
"Resistentialism" is not exactly a modern coinage! Fifty-plus years ago my mother was using that wo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Language training (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
"...was I the shaver or the shavee?" Yes. Unless you were using the exclusive "or", in which case N......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Silly Sequiturs (in Wordplay) by haberdasher
The intermediate form, on the way to dropping the "had" completely, is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Disney redux (in Potpourri) by haberdasher
...they did the same thing to Winnie-the Pooh thirty years ago....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Silly Sequiturs (in Wordplay) by haberdasher
...IIRC (which may be not at all the case) it was from ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I learned a new word! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Does "littoral" work here? I seem to recall there's one word for river-bank and another for seacoast......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gallic Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by haberdasher
That's the connotation. The literal translation is not so kind: "cold blooded". (Why is this differ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scrabble Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by haberdasher
Never did like high-level Scrabble, Stefan Fatsis' ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
"Sadie Hawkins Day for England, I say. (Although we will probably need to call it Sadie Hawkins's Da......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Essential (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
"Essence" also means the central, necessary, distinguishing-from-other-things, identifying part of a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Non-Fiction read (in The Written Word) by haberdasher
Oh, and it _is_ Martin Gardner the SciAm writer. Guess my sojourn on the "infallible" list is indee......
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