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Discussion Topic  RE: Habitué ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Spoilsport, zmj, for looking it up! Still without any research, I'd guess that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Habitué ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Well, it's something she wears every day and she can't (without breaking her vows) get out of it. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: word for words having 2 opposed meanings (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
An oxymoron is a figure of speech where two apparently contradictory words are put together for effe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Roy Peter Clark (in Potpourri) by arnie
From Ammon Shea's review:......
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Discussion Topic  RE: word for words having 2 opposed meanings (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
They're usually called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 2,000 new words (in Potpourri) by arnie
Just to be clear, the online dictionary being updated is the ODE (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 2,000 new words (in Potpourri) by arnie
How does this guy know that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I wish they wouldn't do that (in Potpourri) by arnie
Jim Morrison? Wow. That's some convert! Although since he'd died over 30 years earlier I don't know ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I wish they wouldn't do that (in Potpourri) by arnie
Bob, I've already read your blog post, and commented there about the "GIVR" point you make. I thin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: So, which do you use? (in Potpourri) by arnie
I've seen both variants used. I'd probably use ......
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Discussion Topic  Is it a children's book? (in The Written Word) by arnie
I don't know if Kenneth Grahame's ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Style Invitational limerick competition (in Wordplay) by arnie
There are also the culture differences. If you or I were to write a real rib-tickler of a pefectly-f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: ... and a tractor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Bathos is the introduction of some jarringly out-of-place idea that produces amusement in the reader......
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Discussion Topic  RE: ... and a tractor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
I'd say so. Why not? Provided it was intentional, of course, which this example was, clearly....
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Discussion Topic  ... and a tractor (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
What is the name for the rhetorical device used in this sentence?Is it ......
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Discussion Topic  Style Invitational limerick competition (in Wordplay) by arnie
The Washington Post's Style Invitational is running another limerick competition in conjunction with......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why dictionary translation is not a great idea (in Potpourri) by arnie
I'm lost, too, Kalleh. What did you mean? ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why dictionary translation is not a great idea (in Potpourri) by arnie
I think machine translations into and out of Chinese are particularly problematic given the current ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fitzedward Hall (in The Written Word) by arnie
I looked up "ipsedixitism" in Wikipedia, and found an ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Firestarter (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Well, a firestarter is (unsurprisingly) someone who starts fires, so could be used I suppose as an a......
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