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Tip of Tongue help (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon This word is I'm pretty sure US slang and I'm pretty sure a monosyllable. It means something like 'w...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Obviously the Greek arete has no diacritic and the French arête has a circumflex -- and anyway the t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon I'd like to know if there's a symbol in IPA for the sound some (especially Southern, ie. round where...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Prick in the throat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Maybes it's dialectal. Though I'm not sure there is a Hertfordshire dialect. Yes I recognise the phr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Prick in the throat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon I know I've already asked about the tickle in one's throat that precedes a cough; well, along the sa...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon 'To get on like a house on fire.' Does this have a traceable origin?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Word I can't remember (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon I'm sure there's a word for the irritation/tickle in your throat that precedes a cough. The guys on ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Why do Irish people pronounce 'th' as a hard 't'? Is that the original pronunciation of migrants fro...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Verbifying nouns (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon I don't know if this has been mentioned before in this forum's hallowed past, but I've heard a chat-...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: trepidacious or trepidatious? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon This may be a bit off-topic, but I have someone at my school called a 'learning facilitator'.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Hello I have two questions that are not related to one another in any way. Why is today's AWAD wo...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Tip of Tongue help (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon This word is I'm pretty sure US slang and I'm pretty sure a monosyllable. It means something like 'w...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Thank you aput. Yes it occurs to me that the sound in 'call' or 'hall' could plausibly be notated as...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Words from pre-scientific revolution (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Phlogiston!... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon I'd like to know if there's a symbol in IPA for the sound some (especially Southern, ie. round where...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon The phrase means 'get on well', right? But the origin suggested there does not so much imply a frien...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon Well fanx but that's a definition not an etymology. Probably easier to find in a book than the inter...... 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Tip of Tongue help (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
This word is I'm pretty sure US slang and I'm pretty sure a monosyllable. It means something like 'w......
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RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Obviously the Greek arete has no diacritic and the French arête has a circumflex -- and anyway the t......
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'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I'd like to know if there's a symbol in IPA for the sound some (especially Southern, ie. round where......
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RE: Prick in the throat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Maybes it's dialectal. Though I'm not sure there is a Hertfordshire dialect. Yes I recognise the phr......
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Prick in the throat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I know I've already asked about the tickle in one's throat that precedes a cough; well, along the sa......
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A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
'To get on like a house on fire.' Does this have a traceable origin?...
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Word I can't remember (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I'm sure there's a word for the irritation/tickle in your throat that precedes a cough. The guys on ......
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Tree or Three? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Why do Irish people pronounce 'th' as a hard 't'? Is that the original pronunciation of migrants fro......
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RE: Verbifying nouns (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
I don't know if this has been mentioned before in this forum's hallowed past, but I've heard a chat-......
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RE: trepidacious or trepidatious? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
This may be a bit off-topic, but I have someone at my school called a 'learning facilitator'....
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Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Hello I have two questions that are not related to one another in any way. Why is today's AWAD wo......
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RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Thank you aput. Yes it occurs to me that the sound in 'call' or 'hall' could plausibly be notated as......
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RE: Words from pre-scientific revolution (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Phlogiston!...
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......
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RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
The phrase means 'get on well', right? But the origin suggested there does not so much imply a frien......
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RE: A House on Fire (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Well fanx but that's a definition not an etymology. Probably easier to find in a book than the inter......
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RE: Guffaw (in Questions & Answers about Words) by anycon
Et voila: autological adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it means, e.g.......
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wordnerd, I think you might be looking for 'autonym', though I'm not sure. Something beginning with ......
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