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RE: British vs. American English
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Oxymoron?...
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October 07, 2005 21:36
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September 21, 2005 16:46
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I've only ever heard of arete meaning virtue. I was exposed to it in Philosophy 100 and have heard ......
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September 21, 2005 16:45
RE: Son of Double Dactyls
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Hey Kalleh, I managed to miss these. Thanks. : )...
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September 19, 2005 06:05
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We all know irony is "the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention". Ho......
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September 14, 2005 21:04
RE: Pronunciations
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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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September 12, 2005 20:39
A discussion today
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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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September 08, 2005 19:22
RE: Pairs of letters
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I wrote a computer program in about 10 minutes. Then I spent 15 minutes tracking down a file which ......
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September 07, 2005 21:07
RE: British vs. American English
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"Asshole" is definitely considered a swear, as is just "ass", and referring to the animal walks a fi......
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September 07, 2005 21:05
RE: British vs. American English
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Well, they started out as different ways to pronounce the same work, but they have different connota......
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September 06, 2005 05:57
RE: Something's wroughten here
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Did some checking, and the only remnants of the rule I can find are: Bring/Brought Buy/Sought (Edit......
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September 04, 2005 22:17
RE: Pairs of letters
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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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September 04, 2005 15:45
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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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September 04, 2005 12:49
RE: Something's wroughten here
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In America, we would say "wreak havoc", not "wrought havoc", although the latter isn't unheard of, e......
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September 04, 2005 12:21
RE: Something's wroughten here
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Bring/brought Teach/taught Work/wraught This was a fairly productive rule in Old(?) English....
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September 03, 2005 12:07
RE: Aeronautical terms: why French?
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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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August 27, 2005 22:46
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I was reading ......
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August 26, 2005 20:31
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On a similar note, I've read the letter v was also a late comer to the alphabet party....
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August 21, 2005 09:59
RE: Double cross
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The word double could either be used as in "double agent", or "doubly cross", that is crossing twice......
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August 20, 2005 21:56
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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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August 20, 2005 15:17
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