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RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput 'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput But the Hepburn system doesn't match the Japanese language -- at least, not as regards /tu/. Would y...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by aput ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput > the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput This is someone who's been exposed to English for too long. This is not how it works in Japanese. In...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput The related group is from a root ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: feedback as a countable noun (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words 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...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Another apostrophe question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: rat fink (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words 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...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words 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...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput The ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri 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...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri	» Refine Search » New Search

RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But the Hepburn system doesn't match the Japanese language -- at least, not as regards /tu/. Would y......
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RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by aput
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RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is someone who's been exposed to English for too long. This is not how it works in Japanese. In......
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RE: Crotchety (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The related group is from a root ......
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RE: feedback as a countable noun (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo......
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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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RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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RE: rat fink (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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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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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RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The ......
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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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