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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by aput
There are about 4000 ghits for "negative bounce", half of which are for Kerry. Almost all the rest a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by aput
The original game I know as steeplechasing. There's also a game called hare and hounds, which I woul......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Immigration vs. Emigration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, like ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The title of editor is totally self-appointed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Hunter passage seems fairly clear in meaning to me, though rather wordy, and as an editor I'd qu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
Now that's very interesting. I thought Lott's wording was slightly strange. Of course the two words ......
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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: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
The dangers of false memories! I'd only seen the Truman picture a few times, and my memory had even ......
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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: Incorrect Newspaper Headlines (in Potpourri) by aput
You know, I always thought that headline was "Dewey Wins". Evidently so do quite a few other people:......
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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: "into" vs. "unto" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A person who dies goes into Heaven. A thing on the Earth that rises up to a great height gets near u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To clarify jheem's explanation: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spam, Beyssian filters and word-salad (in The Written Word) by aput
The way to avoid the word-salad on the Web is (for now) surprisingly simple. All those spam pages ar......
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Poll  RE: 'concrete' - pronunciation? regional? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Initial stress only, though I have free variation between CON- and CONG-. I've never heard con-CRETE......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
There is no convenient English respelling for the schwa. I prefer to use 'a' when possible, so JAG-y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
I say ["dZægju@] with a final schwa. I don't hear advertisements, nor frequent the rich, nor t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
I've noticed Americans sometimes think British usage is always to use plural here, but this is proba......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, it's a pure spelling error: 260 ghits is nothing, nowhere near enough to give it any legitimacy.......
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