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I check into Wordcraft every now and again, and today I discover that Arnie had passed on. I had met......
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January 03, 2021 14:40
RE: Okay OED, time to make a change!
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Sorry about that, I miscounted. The off-by-one error in the wild. I have fixed it. Thanks....
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November 23, 2020 08:07
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It is sad, but then we live in sad times. I have an early book of his called ......
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November 21, 2020 05:37
RE: Okay OED, time to make a change!
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November 21, 2020 05:33
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I think the author implies that almost all academic linguists are descriptivists. It's funny how th......
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February 19, 2020 14:00
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I should've looked at the Wikipedia article on this song. In there is a paragraph about these two se......
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January 18, 2019 11:05
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Fun! I was curious about the two Russian sentences: Жил был король когда-то, при нем блоха жила. ......
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January 18, 2019 10:24
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This process of reanalysis of words yielding a new suffix is interesting: e.g., -gate from Watergate......
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January 18, 2019 09:59
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September 29, 2017 06:48
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Well, some of us call a # an octothorpe. Hash for the sharp-sign glyph comes from Unix, IIRC....
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September 21, 2017 11:09
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October 31, 2016 13:32
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September 20, 2016 14:55
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September 16, 2016 11:11
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I have often noticed that legal parlance uses lots of ......
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September 16, 2016 11:06
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There are a lot of idioms using ......
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February 26, 2016 09:49
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I've rabbited on about Cockney Rhyming Slang (CRS) before. Here's a nice ......
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May 16, 2015 13:12
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When hard is modifying something as abstract as a field of study, I think of it meaning "not easy". ......
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April 19, 2015 07:48
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It was exactly this citation, which I came across while browsing the OED in my high school library, ......
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