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RE: Pronunciations
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The -o- of anthrop- is long in Greek, so if we were doing this from scratch there's a good case for ......
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November 29, 2005 01:47
RE: Bilbo
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The place in Spain is the Basque ......
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November 18, 2005 02:08
RE: Arête
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Epsilon: that's what comes of not being able to get onto Perseus to check....
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October 10, 2005 01:46
RE: Arête
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The Greek for virtue is ......
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September 21, 2005 03:34
RE: Pronunciations
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{revope} means 'reverse open e', and is that small 3 symbol. It's a symbol used exclusively for the ......
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September 13, 2005 01:54
RE: Homophonic
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It's to do the U as in UNIT with the Y sound in front of it. The sound change in England (and Austr......
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September 05, 2005 05:43
RE: Double cross
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This is a perfect opportunity to mention a word famously used in only one context. Churchill switche......
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August 22, 2005 02:37
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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August 12, 2005 01:41
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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August 11, 2005 02:23
RE: -ness, -osity, etc
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In the case of English deadjectivals (derivatives from adjectives), '-ness' is the only freely produ......
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August 11, 2005 01:45
RE: Lock of Hair
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June 08, 2005 15:28
RE: Lock of Hair
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No, not German, Germanic. Common ancestor of English, German/Dutch, and Scandinavian....
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June 08, 2005 12:35
RE: Lock of Hair
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Lock the hair (OE ......
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June 07, 2005 23:13
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I'm proofing a very large book at the moment; it's largely written on the principle that if one meta......
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April 15, 2005 11:52
RE: British vs. American English
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'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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February 13, 2005 00:26
RE: Pronunciations
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The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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February 06, 2005 23:37
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I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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February 06, 2005 12:22
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Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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February 03, 2005 12:20
RE: "gallows": why the plural?
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We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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February 03, 2005 00:34
RE: Feeling poorly
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The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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