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Discussion Topic  RE: The Color of Words (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm not synaesthetic by any means, but I find I have vague associations of that kind. I suspect they......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Unambiguous Ambiguities (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
I would have thought a more unambiguous pair of homographs would be harder to find. I don't see how ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Immigration vs. Emigration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, like ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Subtle distinctions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I'm with jheem here (naturally). I'm pretty sure you can't take a word in isolation and say what its......
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Discussion Topic  RE: New translation of the New Testament (in The Written Word) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
Now that's very interesting. I thought Lott's wording was slightly strange. Of course the two words ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
> Why a paper bag? Many bags these days are made of plastic. Not so many in the US, where superm......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
The dangers of false memories! I'd only seen the Truman picture a few times, and my memory had even ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
You know, I always thought that headline was "Dewey Wins". Evidently so do quite a few other people:......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Most of the regional dialects of England lack an [h] sound, but it's still present in the general So......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Compl__mentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For once the OED doesn't give us a nice graded series of senses. The words appeared in English with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A self-contradictory word (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spam, Beyssian filters and word-salad (in The Written Word) by aput
The way to avoid the word-salad on the Web is (for now) surprisingly simple. All those spam pages ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Foundering (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those metaphors aren't quite dead yet. I've got an image of the M.V. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dusting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not 'is coming' but 'has come'. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
There is no convenient English respelling for the schwa. I prefer to use 'a' when possible, so JAG-y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
I say ["dZægju@] with a final schwa. I don't hear advertisements, nor frequent the rich, nor t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
I've noticed Americans sometimes think British usage is always to use plural here, but this is proba......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, it's a pure spelling error: 260 ghits is nothing, nowhere near enough to give it any legitimacy.......
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