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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh, well that's where it comes from: half the on-line dictionaries are just copies of the out-of-cop......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dusting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not 'is coming' but 'has come'. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Novercal (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's just an error. Some modern on-line dictionary has got their lines confused and imported the s......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
With group nouns (group, tribe, team, committee) both are widely used, and they're much more commonl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Recall and Recollect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This hadn't occurred to me; but there are 260 Google hits for ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by aput
Disagree with jheem. It's the stakeholders participating: plural subject. Recast it with simpler wor......
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Discussion Topic  RE: trepidacious or trepidatious? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There are three distinct Latin endings that have been conflated into one English sound. All three ha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
One of the things most seared into my brain under the Death to Marketing list was seeing a tube of t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: lie/lay (in The Written Word) by aput
If the Beatles put an [r] in 'saw them', it was by trying to use an American accent. It's not natura......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My daughter's boyfriend... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
On another board this question came up and a Swedish woman introduced the to-her useful word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Antebellum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To me 'antebellum' only ever means US pre-Civil-War, as a descriptor of architecture, social conditi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: calc- (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've tracked it through Perseus, and I'm going to guess the shift of meaning came from the art of co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: My daughter's boyfriend... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
1. 'Partner' strikes me as the established term now. It wasn't just ten years ago: I didn't know how......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is (or is not) a "word"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's a very, very sensible essay and I agree wholeheartedly with how it makes all those distinctio......
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