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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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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: Royal Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the Court Circular, the daily gazette of royal appointments, they explicitly alternate: The Prin......
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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: Gantlet vs. gauntlet (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen the spelling 'gantlet' in actual use, but apparently it's an American variant for bo......
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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: @#*!#*! Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
I don't think there's anything wrong with ......
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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: What's this kind of "rhyme"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Eye-rhyme it is, and fever/however is quite as respectable a rhyme as fever/either, which is called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this a "metaphor"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
If I had to distinguish them: Metaphor: my laziness is me going underground for summer. Figurative......
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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: Moslem vs. Muslim (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Johnson: bomb them Carter: I want to have sexual intercourse with Polish people Bush 1: *vomit* N......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Moslem vs. Muslim (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Classical Arabic only had three vowels [a i u], and the word was Muslim. Modern Arabic dialects ofte......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As far as I know none of the errors are in the original 1913 dictionary (though I have a very low op......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I could play this game all day. The next non-word is on page ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Just for a giggle I thought I'd see how far ahead I needed to look to find a fictitious word. On the......
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