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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: 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: Further vs. Farther
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I think that was Geoff Pullum on ......
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December 05, 2005 02:21
RE: Word-spotting
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In ......
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December 05, 2005 01:51
RE: Further vs. Farther
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I have heard of such a "rule", but I'm sure like all such pseudo-rules it has little basis in fact. ......
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December 01, 2005 02:16
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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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: Potter Words and Wordplay; later books
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Did Rowling use 'enervate' at all? No example is given. The spell command 'Ennervate', as with all h......
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August 24, 2005 08:40
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: Wherefore why?
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There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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August 12, 2005 01:55
RE: Premature what?
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An otherwise mere vulgar insert is rendered masterly by 'at stool'....
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June 15, 2005 11:46
RE: Cornwall
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Another contemporary reference is the ......
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June 02, 2005 13:47
RE: Cornwall
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Yes, Spanish b/v, d, and g are all soft (lenited) between vowels. They're only explosive as in Engli......
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May 31, 2005 00:35
RE: Cornwall
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Right, well 705 clinches it. There appears to be no evidence ......
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