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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: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, it's standard English in the adverbial sense (pretty big)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pretty much... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I would have guessed this was modernish (19th or late-18th century) slang, but evidently it goes rig......
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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: Banned? Barred? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ban and bann are indeed related: the basic original sense is 'proclamation'. The Proto-Indo-European......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm. I said final stress was comparatively rare. That's not right, not on verbs. What's rare is final......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The noun stress is unchanged; in fact the new verb stress comes from the noun. The nouns have second......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Contributing and distributing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a very recent thing. Some people with the southern English accent have switched to initial s......
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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: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by aput
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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: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
jheem: the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Thought of another one: in fan fiction writers often concentrate on a particular relationship, such ......
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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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