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January 17, 2006 15:39
RE: Apostrophe again, sorry.
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'Short on' sounds highly dialectal to me, and I'd always say 'short of'. I can never work out what ......
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January 15, 2006 15:26
RE: Grammar Police as Editors
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For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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January 14, 2006 00:08
RE: (Pre)(As)sume
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I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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January 10, 2006 16:41
RE: Twenty O Six
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For me the years of this decade are only two thousand and six, not twenty oh six (we don't have the ......
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January 09, 2006 12:09
RE: (Pre)(As)sume
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In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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January 09, 2006 11:58
RE: Cutlery
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Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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January 01, 2006 23:16
RE: Cutlery
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Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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January 01, 2006 15:57
RE: Cutlery
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The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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January 01, 2006 04:12
RE: Judas goat
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Another useful employee is the Tennessee fainting goat. It has a genetic defect that means its legs ......
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December 29, 2005 10:17
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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Actually I should clarify that I don't want to ......
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December 27, 2005 02:32
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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That's why I was looking for examples of 'as X as' and 'more X than', because they show X is an adje......
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December 27, 2005 00:15
RE: Cutlery
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Cutlery for me is knives, forks, spoons and the like (I hadn't even registered the possible connexio......
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December 26, 2005 23:32
RE: Behemoth as adjective
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Well, I wouldn't use it that way, and I don't think many people would (even if they were familiar wi......
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December 26, 2005 13:13
RE: Bucket vs. Pail
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For me, and I can only speak for standard southern English not involved in specialist occupations, t......
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December 21, 2005 05:58
RE: Word-spotting
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In ......
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December 05, 2005 01:51
RE: "Epicaricacy" found!
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But 'Schadenfreude' did become an English word. And in that case, the given first citation is indeed......
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November 30, 2005 09:28
RE: "Epicaricacy" found!
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Well no, it's used as a ......
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November 30, 2005 02:11
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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