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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dictionaries lag behind the times. I say [3:] ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'zebra' is usually ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That quote ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's interesting, I own Spencer and Zwicky and can check around it. They only use 'metanalysis' on......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Middle English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It isn't mispronouncing! Not if people around you say it like that....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me: gigabyte with a [g], mauve with the GOAT vowel [@U], err with the NURSE vowel [3:], and erro......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
While 'dibs' is grammatically normal ('I've got dibs on the X', 'to call dibs on X'), 'bags' is most......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Ah, now what's happened there? I've lost an edit button and only have the "reply with quote" option.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxonian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some approximate principles can be seen. The native English suffix is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Naturally. But we sent them all to the colonies for the convicts to play with....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Perhaps they needed to get their head of etymology in to explain that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
One of my favourite terms in economics is 'dead cat bounce': the apparent upturn in the economy or a......
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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: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
Well my Chambers includes 'boasting, a bold lie' as one of the senses, but doesn't mark it as from a......
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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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