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Discussion Topic  RE: Master (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Master was formerly used of grown men -- "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man" --, a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer Names (in Potpourri) by aput
Cloris Leachman? The one who was... was it Phyllis on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? *tries to put dates......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Irish is the only language I can think of where there's been a big reform of the spelling. It's also......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Lerning to spell may be important, but getting the reesons rite is too. Changing dubble consonants t......
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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: Dusting (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not 'is coming' but 'has come'. The ......
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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: 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: Motile vs. Mobile (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think of 'motile' as referring to things like flagella and cilia that can move in place, either to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Argh! But it's not how the Greeks think! It's just a bunch of words. They haven't got some concept P......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Greek for "Love" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Aput's Postulate: for any statement 'X has n words for Y' made in a language L, the statement 'L has......
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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: 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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