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Discussion Topic  RE: "speciality" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
How many syllables are there in "special"? Two, in the US, unless one is referring to species....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "culminate" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
I've never seen it, nor would I so use it. But the use of intransitive verbs as transitive is, I th......
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Discussion Topic  And suddenly the moonbeams (in The Written Word) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bistronomic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bistronomic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
It seems to me that this is a pretty poor coinage. Yes, gastronomic ends with nomic, but so do lots ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Don't these people know how to index? A ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
You've described what used to be universally called, here in the US, a parka. In my youth, it was a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Asa: did you mean anorek, or anorak? To me, an anorak (and the US equivalent - I think - parka) is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
I don't know if my experience is typical, but the only times I've read or heard the word "anorak" to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
I wouldn't have said the "El Greco exhibition" either. The El Grecos at the NG are a part of the per......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Not to me, it wouldn't be. For example, on display in the National Gallery in DC are at least 6 pai......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Or Marilyn Monroe's toes. I could see 6 Vermeers as an Exhibition, worthy of special treatment, etc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
In the UK, would you describe a display case containing 6 stone axes as an exhibit, or an exhibition......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Exhibit or Exhibition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Try the boy who cried wolf argument. If she calls every group of three or four objects an exhibiti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Valentine
Err, the Cubs were in the World Series seven times after 1908, in 1910, 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938......
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Discussion Topic  Bluffing game: calipee and calipash (in Wordplay) by Valentine
Two words, this time. They don't always appear as a pair, but are most certainly closely related. U......
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Discussion Topic  Gender neutrality (in Potpourri) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Valentine
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