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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm. I said final stress was comparatively rare. That's not right, not on verbs. What's rare is final......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The noun stress is unchanged; in fact the new verb stress comes from the noun. The nouns have second......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a very recent thing. Some people with the southern English accent have switched to initial s......
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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: Improper grammar? If so, what' the term for it? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think it's actually ungrammatical. It's a blend of constructions. A pair such as 'shot and stabbed......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The English sense 'stupid' owes its present popularity to the influence of German ......
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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: Ellipses (in Potpourri) by aput
I regard dashes and ellipses are complementary. A dash shows a suddenly interrupted thought, an elli......
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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: 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: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It isn't mispronouncing! Not if people around you say it like that....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me: gigabyte with a [g], mauve with the GOAT vowel [@U], err with the NURSE vowel [3:], and erro......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ah, now what's happened there? I've lost an edit button and only have the "reply with quote" option.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some approximate principles can be seen. The native English suffix is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Royal Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the Court Circular, the daily gazette of royal appointments, they explicitly alternate: The Prin......
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