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Discussion Topic  RE: Enquire vs. Inquire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, Fowler means 'enquire' is a formal word for 'ask'. You enquire what the time is, or when the nex......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never been able to work out what the verb for that should be: encomize? encomiaze? Why don't we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not spoken text, but spoken input. Brains are genetically designed to convert spoken language input ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Languages can jump from brain to brain via a written text, but the receiving brain has to know the l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think I should point out that the media that carry Korean and Turkish are exactly the same. Human ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English as she is writ by UK stylists of note (in The Written Word) by aput
Well if we're going to be pedantic, there is no such thing as the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One of the main sources for modern North American dialects and accents is the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, well, rather an odd question: where does my knowledge of accents come from? Study, reading, the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
On clicks: don't know to alphabetization, but the sound files for Peter Ladefoged's course on phonet......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, origin of words perhaps, but it would be nice to know the histories of the signs -- , and : and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I always thought the ? was derived from a Q for query/question (or Latin ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The difference between ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The clicks in Bushman languages (there's something like 20 or 30 languages in the Kalahari area that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: binomial (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or what the dictionary says is an insufficient guide to usage. This is a word that has two common co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Short on' sounds highly dialectal to me, and I'd always say 'short of'. I can never work out what ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dispersing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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