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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by shufitz
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reimportation (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Well, we have an interesting conflict here. Tinman quotes a Cooper article saying that most of the i......
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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  RE: Chancery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
If I recall from my law school days, chancery dealt with multiple kinds of cases; I don't know wheth......
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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  RE: Chancery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
Interesting. Could the source be Dicken's view of the british court system, where being in court w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: If you're fired, you're de-__ (in Wordplay) by shufitz
When [Thomas Edison][Joseph Swan]* fired him, he was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Avaricious (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitz
I think of avarice as lust for money, but here's an example meaning lust for goods:......
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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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