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Discussion Topic  metaphor chop suey (in Potpourri) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
He was no more than a name to me; one hears of fashionable figures but often doesn't get why they're......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
Japanese borrowings from English have a few interesting peculiarities. Because Japanese has mainly o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sneek peek? (in Potpourri) by aput
"Good greef" has 3800 ghits. Strange, strange place the Web. "sneeek peak" has 2, "sneakpeak" has 5......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Same here: naif is not a word in my active vocabulary. Before looking into this I only thought of it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A bit of Googling confirms Kalleh's and my original impression, that 'naif' is a genderless noun in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'When he crossed the Tiber' is subordinated by the conjunction 'when', and can't stand on its own (e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Satrapies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I can't swear to this, but I think I've seen it around in the modern political sense for some while.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: naïf (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Naive is certainly an adjective in English: you can't say 'she is a naive'. I tend to agree with Kal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verblessness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No main clause verbs. All the verbs in there are dependent on noun phrases or in subordinate clauses......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Substring search at Perseus! I didn't know you could do that: I've just seen the basic "beginning wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Still can't think of a Classical Latin word ending in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vatic/vatican (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nation vs. Country (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
And the fourth independent state: California (very briefly, unlike the 14 years for Vermont). But t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nation vs. Country (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'State' has the second meaning of 'province' largely because of the United States of America. The th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation again... (in Potpourri) by aput
Degree of stress is relative. If EMpire is pronounced with the vowels it normally has, it's impossib......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nation vs. Country (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would call the UK one state and four countries. In many regards the four components are countries ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is an "island"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
How about a big sharp rock in the middle of nowhere? One such is one of the remaining glories of the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Parameter/Perimeter (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't encountered this usage in the wild, only in discussion of it. Neither is quite natural for......
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