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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
I make it 947 Z's, in the edition on the 'Republic of Pemberley', but close enough. But Z has such a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
A live experiment on a mini-corpus: the first thousand words of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Least used letter? (in Potpourri) by aput
Z. Letter frequencies were counted in the nineteenth century so that typesetters would have suitabl......
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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: 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: Dr Seuss's cat (in Potpourri) by aput
Is it just me or does the imprint 'Tapir, Trondheim' not inspire sober confidence? Various issues h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Enquire vs. Inquire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, Fowler means 'enquire' is a formal word for 'ask'. You enquire what the time is, or when the nex......
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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: 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: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Londoner, Berliner, New Yorker, ... Glaswegian, Liverpudlian, Mancunian, Roman, Genevan, Venetian, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I like to look at them etymologically. An enclave is within a country, e.g. Lesotho is an enclave in......
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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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