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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas Priest! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I don't quite see what's wrong with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas Priest! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thespian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I've always seen it used as a synonym for actor. Maybe they are confusing the term with lesbian....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas goat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Via the untrustworthy Wikipedia: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Strange Pastry Names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The names of many foodstuffs can be kind of weird. Some people call Danish pastries snails. There ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hebrew help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hebrew help! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catechresis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Going back to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English to Modern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I just stumbled across a great ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Pedestrian" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Pedestrian, in the sense of commonplace, is also from the Latin ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bald-faced vs. bold-faced (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Did not men of yore swear by their beards?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: songster (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The suffix -......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word-spotting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
This ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English to Modern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
While there is more mutual intelligibility (at least in the written versions) between Middle English......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Old/Middle English to Modern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I'd call it a translation, because Old, Middle, and Present-Day English are different languages....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "anabasis" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
The "military retreat" meaning of anabasis seems to stem from Xenophon's book ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
Well, I was misinformed about the OED's policy on inkhorn terms. They must have ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Epicaricacy" found! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I would say that the first occurence of a foreign word in the literature does not support its being ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thank-you-ma'am (in Questions & Answers about Words) by zmježd
I have run into the etymology in one of Charles E Funk's books, but, alas, not a thank-you-ma'am in ......
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