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RE: "Tit for tat"
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Charles E. Funk gives the tip for tap story in his ......
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January 26, 2005 06:56
RE: feedback as a countable noun
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I hadn't thought of it, Richard, but you're no doubt right. The OED (1st ed. supplement) gives a cit......
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January 24, 2005 06:39
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Somebody has just pointed me to a website (and a further googling shows it to be common on the web) ......
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January 22, 2005 16:12
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RE: Origin of "PU"
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Sure, CW. I usually use ......
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January 21, 2005 06:35
RE: Origin of "PU"
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In German, ......
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RE: Origin of "PU"
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Well, there's a reconstructed PIE root *......
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January 17, 2005 16:13
RE: Origin of "PU"
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I always thought that PU == pyew, and is one of those strange, bad spellings which lead to a new pro......
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January 17, 2005 08:38
RE: The future ain't what it used to be.
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These periphrastic verbal forms are why I think it's bogus to talk about Latin or Russian being more......
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January 16, 2005 17:03
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For me, a futon is a sort of matress which has no springs and is stuffed with cotton. Some are thin ......
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January 08, 2005 07:03
RE: rat fink
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Fink and rat fink are terms that I associated with mad magazine in the late '50s and throughout the ......
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January 06, 2005 06:03
RE: rat fink
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Yes, I have. That was its primary meaning, I thought....
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January 05, 2005 15:16
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RE: rat fink
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I'd forgotten about the King of Id. Thanks....
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January 05, 2005 08:06
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January 03, 2005 16:54
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December 31, 2004 18:28
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December 31, 2004 13:33
RE: like a broken record
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Probably not to true nit pickers, JT, but language outlives the people who speak it, so perhaps the ......
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December 31, 2004 08:46
RE: like a broken record
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Mandrel is an interesting word. It comes from French ......
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