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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Bilbo (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The place in Spain is the Basque ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Epsilon: that's what comes of not being able to get onto Perseus to check....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek for virtue is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
{revope} means 'reverse open e', and is that small 3 symbol. It's a symbol used exclusively for the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Homophonic (in The Written Word) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Double cross (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is a perfect opportunity to mention a word famously used in only one context. Churchill switche......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I glossed 'deadjectival' because it's a fairly new term to me, not a traditional grammatical term. M......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
As to gender in languages like French, it might look arbitrary to a foreign adult learner, but the n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: -ness, -osity, etc (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the case of English deadjectivals (derivatives from adjectives), '-ness' is the only freely produ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, not German, Germanic. Common ancestor of English, German/Dutch, and Scandinavian....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Lock the hair (OE ......
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Discussion Topic  metaphor chop suey (in Potpourri) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
'Prince of Wales' is unusual in being the only territorial princedom*. On the Continent you have the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Chambers dictionary is Scottish but doesn't list the variant pronunciation of 'donkey'; they wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "gallows": why the plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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