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RE: Euphemisms make a mulligan for wrecklessness.
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Never heard of 'mulligan'. And 'wrecklessly' has some 7000 ghits, many of which are evidently intend......
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June 08, 2005 00:58
RE: 'Hard words' from "River Horse"
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Indeed, the Macbeth is why any reasonably educated person should know 'incarnadine', as it instantly......
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June 05, 2005 11:08
RE: Cornwall
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Another contemporary reference is the ......
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June 02, 2005 13:47
RE: Cornwall
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Yes, Spanish b/v, d, and g are all soft (lenited) between vowels. They're only explosive as in Engli......
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May 31, 2005 00:35
RE: Cornwall
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Right, well 705 clinches it. There appears to be no evidence ......
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May 30, 2005 08:27
RE: Cornwall
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The terms lenis and fortis, weak and strong, are ones I consider of only marginal value in phonetics......
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May 30, 2005 00:11
RE: Euphemisms for Sexual Intercourse
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discussing Ugandan affairs...
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May 29, 2005 13:35
RE: Cornwall
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Well, the whole thing is wildly anachronistic, but as Cornwall is the modern name of a place, it's n......
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May 28, 2005 01:19
RE: Subordinate
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It sounds like a formal, neutral term to me. I do detect that there could be a pejorative whiff abou......
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May 23, 2005 13:04
RE: "Colors of Spring" -- and others
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May 23, 2005 12:59
RE: "Us Yanks" vs. "We Brits"
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Any adjective can be used on its own in noun-like positions in certain contexts: The poor will alway......
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May 11, 2005 15:40
RE: "Us Yanks" vs. "We Brits"
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It's odd. The terms Britain and British are widely used, and indeed indispensable, they being our fl......
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May 11, 2005 08:50
RE: Ruthless
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Those meanings look right on what I know: el-i melek 'god-my king', b-o 'in-him', na`m-i 'pleasant-m......
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May 08, 2005 01:03
RE: "Us Yanks" vs. "We Brits"
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I don't know, "us + N:subj" is grammatically as normal as "we + N:subj" everywhere in the English-sp......
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May 06, 2005 13:27
RE: Ruthless
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There is no way you can get any part of "compassionate friend" out of the Hebrew (or in fact Moabite......
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May 06, 2005 08:03
RE: Ruthless
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It's just the abstract noun of 'rue' = regret, as 'truth' and 'troth' are from 'trow' = believe, or ......
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May 05, 2005 23:43
RE: "Dyke" or "Dike"?
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The spelling 'dyke' just looks a bit more normal for all senses. Certainly I would only use 'dyke' i......
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April 21, 2005 10:38
RE: English loanwords in France
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You would only be pronouncing ......
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April 21, 2005 00:25
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I'm proofing a very large book at the moment; it's largely written on the principle that if one meta......
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April 15, 2005 11:52
RE: English loanwords in France
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Japanese borrowings from English have a few interesting peculiarities. Because Japanese has mainly o......
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