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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I give myself 7/10, not too bad I suppose for one of the few occasions when I can't be bothered ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I do think it's much over-used these days. Though Fowler complained of it as a cliché in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: New words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would presume the contemporary use of 'defenestration' is in removing Windows -- to install Linux ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's pronounced [tsunami] (with the distinctive Japanese form of [u], which doesn't concern us). It......
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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: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The 'pale' horse was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by aput
Let's see if I've got this right... Principle 1. Structuring meaning multidimensionally is cocreati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by aput
I wouldn't trust the argument of anyone using Greek words in English as if they captured some nice d......
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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: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A good example of the randomness of change at the supermarket today. Change is often presented as if......
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