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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  RE: Tsunami (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: 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: Ukraine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
English uses 'the' either when there's an explicit toponym with a qualifier (the United Kingdom, the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Size-up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Earlier senses in the OED are ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Size-up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
First, in general linguists don't know causes of historical change. There is not much in the way of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English: inflectional suffixes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The suffixes phonetically conflated at the end of OE: so -e -a -u all became -ə [schwa or -e if......
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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: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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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: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I want to scream over the tannoy announcements, 'We're not customers! We're passengers!'. And it mak......
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