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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
One of the things most seared into my brain under the Death to Marketing list was seeing a tube of t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A new more-vowels-than-consonants challenge (in Wordplay) by aput
aeolian harp air guitar (bet that was it) quena...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
On clicks: don't know to alphabetization, but the sound files for Peter Ladefoged's course on phonet......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, origin of words perhaps, but it would be nice to know the histories of the signs -- , and : and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I always thought the ? was derived from a Q for query/question (or Latin ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The clicks in Bushman languages (there's something like 20 or 30 languages in the Kalahari area that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: binomial (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or what the dictionary says is an insufficient guide to usage. This is a word that has two common co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dispersing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "syntopic" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I learnt 'synoptic' from weather charts, and for a long time that was the only thing I knew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Twenty O Six (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me the years of this decade are only two thousand and six, not twenty oh six (we don't have the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cryptozoology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Certainly. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about many of the cryptid stories -- just very v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas goat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Another useful employee is the Tennessee fainting goat. It has a genetic defect that means its legs ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Behemoth as adjective (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I should clarify that I don't want to ......
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