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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: Boss and Bossy (the cow) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is brought in for its articles: masculine ......
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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: Boss and Bossy (the cow) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
And which is original, Bosporus or Bosphorus? I've never managed to work it out; both make sense, an......
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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: Risible/Ludicrous/Ridiculous (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Risible' and 'ridiculous' came into English at about the same time, c. 1550, but with quite differe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prognostication (in Potpourri) by aput
The telephone was invented by an Italian living in Cuba, Antonio Meucci. Bell unfairly got the credi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The literal translation 'Dig I cannot; to beg I am ashamed' sounds passable to me. They must have fe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chiasmus vs Juxtaposition? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't know a literary device called juxtaposition. Chiasmus isn't just placing things next to each......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vocabulary Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There was no Greek word for 'word' as such, so 'logophile' is as good as any. But if you're trying t......
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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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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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