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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... and a few hints about Kentish, such as that it's a southern dialect and therefore has initial z ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's because there are two different prefixes ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Patois (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Patois, or Patwa or Kwéyòl, is also used as the name of the French-based Creoles of th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh well, inceptive and inchoative are the same thing grammatically. The '(?)' is there because for s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thole (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Good question, with no definite answer. Dictionary makers have to decide whether to set words out as......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ancient uses of the term included both verbal irony -- saying one thing intending it to be taken......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The London sound is variously notated. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
{revope} means 'reverse open e', and is that small 3 symbol. It's a symbol used exclusively for the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: eyes on -ize/-ise (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
-ize was widely used about 300 years ago, then -ise came (back?) in in Britain later. Around 1900 O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: refugee (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Homophonic (in The Written Word) by aput
It's to do the U as in UNIT with the Y sound in front of it. The sound change in England (and Austr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Potter Words and Wordplay; later books (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
Did Rowling use 'enervate' at all? No example is given. The spell command 'Ennervate', as with all h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: One sentence or two? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I am equivocal. Exclamation marks are definitely within the sentence in cases like: Alas! that ever......
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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
There are two possible grammars for these constructions. The relative clause can attach to either th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double cross (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a perfect opportunity to mention a word famously used in only one context. Churchill switche......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wherefore why? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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