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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The hot water boiler is usually spelt geyser, and is pronounced the same as geezer the old man. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
> The only other suffix I know of that's been elevated to word status is ism ish...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb vs. Stupid (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The English sense 'stupid' owes its present popularity to the influence of German ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: hapax logomenon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hapaxlegomenon is a property of corpora, and is quite different from a claim of invention. Typically......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the initial stress on the verbs is a recent development, a levelling of the difference. In s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The year of the Chav (in Potpourri) by aput
I'm really lost on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: red states; blue states; battleground states (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I was surprised to see this recently, and at first thought I was reading the map wrong. Here the col......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think I've ever come across the word 'reparable'. It would for me be stressed on the first s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Panopticon Effect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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: 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: Scruples (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The distinction is in Latin, and they were borrowed separately. Latin had a word ......
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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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