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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Oxymoron?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Evolution of swearing (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
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Discussion Topic  RE: Arête (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I've only ever heard of arete meaning virtue. I was exposed to it in Philosophy 100 and have heard ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
Hey Kalleh, I managed to miss these. Thanks. : )...
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Discussion Topic  Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
We all know irony is "the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention". Ho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Try blending sofa and err and say so-fer, and you realize there is no way to blend the vowels to mak......
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Discussion Topic  A discussion today (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I was at lunch with my co-workers, and the topic of science came up. I made a comment about how dur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pairs of letters (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I wrote a computer program in about 10 minutes. Then I spent 15 minutes tracking down a file which ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
"Asshole" is definitely considered a swear, as is just "ass", and referring to the animal walks a fi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
Well, they started out as different ways to pronounce the same work, but they have different connota......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Did some checking, and the only remnants of the rule I can find are: Bring/Brought Buy/Sought (Edit......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pairs of letters (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I found "deeded", and that is the only one I can find of any higher order. How about words where ea......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pairs of letters (in Wordplay) by Seanahan
I cheated, and wrote a computer program to do the work for me. Here are a couple of results from a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
In America, we would say "wreak havoc", not "wrought havoc", although the latter isn't unheard of, e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Something's wroughten here (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
Bring/brought Teach/taught Work/wraught This was a fairly productive rule in Old(?) English....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Aeronautical terms: why French? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
I would like to help out, but I don't think I've ever heard any of those terms. I've never really s......
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Discussion Topic  Saul Bellow (in The Written Word) by Seanahan
I was reading ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
On a similar note, I've read the letter v was also a late comer to the alphabet party....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double cross (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Seanahan
The word double could either be used as in "double agent", or "doubly cross", that is crossing twice......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Seanahan
I don't mind either way on colour/color, but to me agonize is clearly better, since this is less amb......
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