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Discussion Topic  RE: Gangstah Words from the Past? (in The Written Word) by goofy
I don't see where they get the idea that "flaky" used to mean "addicted to cocaine"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: A great question (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: A great question (in Potpourri) by goofy
I thought I knew, and I turned out to be right yay!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
I agree that language is not logic. But putting that aside for the moment, 2) and 3) in my list are ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
I know, but I use double negatives to cancel each other out all the time, for instance "I don't beli......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
I didn't read Bob's first post carefully. I thought he was parsing it as if the two negatives cancel......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
So his arm actually was bothering him? So it should be parsed "I wouldn't be surprised if his arm is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another think/thing coming (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
My view is that both usages are normal variation. The "corruption" is about 100 years old, and appar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What did he say? (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: Interesting blog posts (in The Written Word) by goofy
I love how the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Commentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
I don't see what's odd about corpora for different kinds of English, so you can research specific fe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Commentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
My search in the corpus seems to support Guy's intuition that there's something unusual about "comme......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Kraft Beer? (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: Commentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: waffle (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
It's in the OED Online from 1803!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spelling Bees (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: Whing(e)ing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
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