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Discussion Topic  to "dooce" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Ever heard of the verb "to ......
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Discussion Topic  Extremis? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Is this, from today's Chicago Tribune, an improper usage?......
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Discussion Topic  A new coinage :-) (in The Written Word) by shufitz
From the newspaper:......
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Discussion Topic  Planets Outside the Solar System (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
You recall that we discussed the recent brouhaha over the definition of 'planet', and how it affects......
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Discussion Topic  Regional Dialects (in Potpourri) by shufitz
The October 2006 issue of ......
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Discussion Topic  "etiolated" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Interesting figurative use here of a word I had to look up:......
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Discussion Topic  "Pulling one's Leg" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What do you think of the two explanations ......
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Discussion Topic  "Perseveration" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Baseball, 1951: Bobby Thompson hits his famous home run, becoming a hero; pitcher Ralph Branca becom......
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Discussion Topic  Wordspotting: fauxtography (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
What do you call misleading images created by digitally altering a photograph?......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Strange Pastry Names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  "publication bias" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
From today's Wall Street Journal: In ancient Greece, sailors who survived shipwrecks had their port......
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Discussion Topic  Oldest Writing in New World (in The Written Word) by shufitz
Researchers have announced the earliest known writing in the New World. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: cockney rhyming slang (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Welcome, oh wise sophie! I'm not British, but was able to find this: dense = ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Strange Pastry Names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  RE: A dirty limerick in OED (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  A dirty limerick in OED (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
It may interest you that OED has a dirty limerick for its first citation for "numero uno". OED gives......
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Discussion Topic  "the dozens" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
This from an article about Paramount Pictures firing actor Tom Cruise for his strange behavior:......
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Discussion Topic  Wordspotting: to attrit (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  Wordspotting: vernacular (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
I always understood "vernacular" to be a noun, refering to a place's local language. But here I see ......
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Discussion Topic  Wordspotting: commercant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Spotted a word that isn't in any of the one-look dictionaries or in OED. Apparently it's from French......
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