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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: 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: 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: 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: Reoccur; recur
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I look rather askance at 'reoccur': for me the natural term for this is 'recur', and I think I've ch......
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December 26, 2005 23:39
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: Have you seen a resurgence?
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In my work I am constantly reading text like "its profile has witnessed a thrilling resurgence recen......
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December 07, 2005 08:24
RE: Word-spotting
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In ......
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December 05, 2005 01:51
RE: "anabasis"
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Xenophon's work covers both the entry into Persian territory and the subsequent need to retreat back......
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December 05, 2005 01:48
RE: Old/Middle English to Modern
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Huh! King Alfred founded the Navy. I use 'translation' for OE to MnE, which are different languages......
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December 05, 2005 01:43
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: Precious
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We sneaks up to the nassty goblinses with it and we wrings their neckss, yess we does....
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November 28, 2005 08:08
RE: Auschwitz
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Actually Belsen doesn't seem to fit nearly as well as Auschwitz. It's a bit hard to web-search for n......
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November 28, 2005 08:02
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