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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: Collectives-Idiomatic (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Well, you can start with groups of animals, a murder of crows, a pride of lions, an exhaltation of l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thole (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I used to teach rowing at a summer camp. While the word did not come up often(I haven't taught rowi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: She's a shoe-in (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Remember, "it's not the teat, it's the tumidity"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: eponyms page - major omission? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Lolita is of course from Nobokov. Another eponym like Spartan is sparse, which comes from Sparta,......
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Discussion Topic  Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
We all know irony is "the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention". Ho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: They also serve ... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: She's a shoe-in (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Kalleh, men don't look at nurses and say, "Hey a nurse, now there's a sex object". On a whole, men ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from pre-scientific revolution (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
On the note of atomos(from Democritus, I believe), I read an interesting essay by Asimov. If instea......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
It sounds like you are describing some sort of flap....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Alpabet SOOP? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
In Latin, Jehovah is spelled with an I. Indiana Jones memories from this thread, anyone?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: I have a dream speech (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
Kalleh, perhaps it is a reference to Shakespeare, in Richard III, "Now is the winter of our disconte......
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Discussion Topic  A discussion today (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I was at lunch with my co-workers, and the topic of science came up. I made a comment about how dur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'credulity' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Do people talk about "hoovering" mostly in England? I've never heard that term before in America....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Did some checking, and the only remnants of the rule I can find are: Bring/Brought Buy/Sought (Edit......
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Discussion Topic  RE: blankie (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Of course! A blankie is a blanket, except has special emotional attachment for a child. Often it i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
In America, we would say "wreak havoc", not "wrought havoc", although the latter isn't unheard of, e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'credulity' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
That is odd. I think I may have heard the lend/barrow confusion once or twice in vernacular speech ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Bring/brought Teach/taught Work/wraught This was a fairly productive rule in Old(?) English....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Yanks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I was referring to Ryan SandbErg, of the Chicago Cubs. Not to be confused with Carl SandbUrg, the f......
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