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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: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, I'm not sure. It looks like Dunbar has both the first recorded use (1503: Be his feiris he wald ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Meanings, "pro-" and "con" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Pro and con' is a mediaeval abbreviation for 'pro and contra', where ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Customers, Patrons, Passengers, Patients (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I want to scream over the tannoy announcements, 'We're not customers! We're passengers!'. And it mak......
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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: Language development (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
None of those corresponds very closely with anything I know, though none is completely implausible a......
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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: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by aput
Funny how no-one ever fulminates about 'good' or 'big' or 'long'. That shows the animus against 'nic......
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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: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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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: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I did some work for a borough council on their ethnic monitoring, and their forms had two further bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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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  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by aput
Cat: I've seen the photos and I second Kalleh....
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