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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, the Japanese is /tunami/, pronounced [tsunami]. I find initial [ts] easy to say, so I pronounce......
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Discussion Topic  RE: yclept (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A word only ever used facetiously. Archaism belongs in carefully archaic styles. Definitely to be av......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The key pair is the noun 'advice' and verb 'advise'. I'm not 100% sure that what I'm about to say is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Banned? Barred? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ban and bann are indeed related: the basic original sense is 'proclamation'. The Proto-Indo-European......
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Discussion Topic  RE: like a broken record (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Surely the expression is older. Vinyl records scratch but don't break, as far as I recall: it was sh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
jheem: the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
"Been through the middle of" looks like a folk etymology or mondegreen by someone who doesn't unders......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Thought of another one: in fan fiction writers often concentrate on a particular relationship, such ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
To clarify, there are two separate words here. There is 'geezer', an old man, from an earlier form '......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The hot water boiler is usually spelt geyser, and is pronounced the same as geezer the old man. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> The only other suffix I know of that's been elevated to word status is ism ish...
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the initial stress on the verbs is a recent development, a levelling of the difference. In s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The year of the Chav (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm really lost on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think I've ever come across the word 'reparable'. It would for me be stressed on the first s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Panopticon Effect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dictionaries lag behind the times. I say [3:] ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'zebra' is usually ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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