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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Homonym is a catch-all term for two words that are the same: could be same sound (homophone), same s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Calque: using a word or words that has a non-standard sense in one language and borrowing that same ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually this doesn't seem to be clear. The regimen is from a Greek word ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: A new more-vowels-than-consonants challenge (in Wordplay) by aput
aeolian harp air guitar (bet that was it) quena...
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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: Caryatid, telemon and atlas (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Fascinating snippet: sexual ornament affecting architecture. If you'd been asked beforehand for an e......
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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: Pronunciations and Mispronunciations (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
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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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: "syntopic" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I learnt 'synoptic' from weather charts, and for a long time that was the only thing I knew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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