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Discussion Topic  RE: Algorithm (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Fine; now can you work in Napier's bones, too? ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Algorithm (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Algorithm is the reason that former Presidential candidate and his wife have so few children. (But n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Algorithm (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I thought Alporithm was the way dogs multiply. That's why they like Napierian bones... [This messa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Algorithm (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I agree with Kalleh. When I used the term I meant to imply an almost mechanical procedure that could......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophes again (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I must be older than you are. You're fretting over the slovenliness of the apostrophe. I still can......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pet Peeves Part 2 (in Potpourri) by haberdasher
Just to add to the confusion - I would only prescribe something ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Seeing wood (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
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Discussion Topic  RE: Government in Action (in Potpourri) by haberdasher
Not all USAers. No time for even broadcast TV, let alone cable!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sheer Enlightenment (in The Written Word) by haberdasher
Compare "You've got to walk that lonesome valley, You've got to cross it for yourself, Ain't nobody......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A test about tester (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
...then in this usage "test" is related to the French word "tête" (= "head"), and the circumflex acc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: panoply (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Again, not from dictionary - A palimpsest is a canvas or parchment or whatever that has been used ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: panoply (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Is this not a case of language and usage evolving faster than the dictionaries? It touches also on t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
Did I just finally get the "tin ear" reference? from Rin Tin Tin, via "Rover was killed by a...P......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spanglish (and others) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I suspect it's much older than Ogden Nash. Though I'm sure he would have approved if it had been bl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spanglish (and others) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to tutor two Tudors to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it ha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Individuals in society (in The Vocabulary Forum) by haberdasher
I've only encountered it before in the name "Peirian Sodality," a.k.a. the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchest......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Individuals in society (in The Vocabulary Forum) by haberdasher
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cliches (in The Written Word) by haberdasher
...as is "money is the root of all evil."...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I plead guilty to calling it Bon Mar-SHAY, but that's on account of assuming that it was meant to be......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Latin ordinal numbers? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by haberdasher
I like "Ist" and I'll wager I'm not the only one. You have no grounds for feeling defensive! Koko ......
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