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Discussion Topic  RE: Birth of Beer (language-related, actually) (in Potpourri) by dalehileman
shu: I'd incline to agree with zm. Actually after a few years' experience on the wordboards I'm co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sticky-outie (in Potpourri) by dalehileman
A wordboard is an Internet site at which words are discussed I thought it had been my invention but......
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Discussion Topic  RE: momtini (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
"Momtini" on Google's advanced article archive gets 27 hits going back to 1951 Thus it's gaining so......
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Discussion Topic  pre- vs de- (in Potpourri) by dalehileman
In connection with Kalleh's followups under Q@A, "Food of Shame" k: Thank you for that. You are d......
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Discussion Topic  Food of shame (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
...or with the right spirit...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
True, but you could say the same about water...
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Discussion Topic  barage (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Nothing whatever...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Or Swiller Lite, Curse, etc Incidentally I'm led to believe that there actually is a Dudweiser...
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Discussion Topic  opportunistic (in Potpourri) by dalehileman
I ran upon the following whilst deleting old email and thought it might make an appropo thread: Bus......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Rich: True. If I hadn't learned otherwise, I would have interpreted a folly at the top of the clif......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Word: Sorry I misunderstood as I had never heard the term used exclusively for monuments of that so......
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
k: Three. Used to be five but two banned me for excessive persiflage because I am such a bad pers......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Folly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
word: As we use the expr, somebody's folly is anything unsuccessful that he has created...
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Goofy: "Claiming that a word has a certain meaning is not being prescriptivist. It's just stating a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
arnie: No, no seriously, don't give up. Go to OneLook under algorithm and see if some of the defs ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
arnie: I wouldn't be too sure about that. First of all, "algorithm" is often used to mean not prog......
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Guys, don't get me wrong. As a fellow card-carrying prescriptivist I maintain that broadening or st......
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Discussion Topic  RE: algorithm, routine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by dalehileman
Guys thank you, this is all extremely enlightening. Other sources agreee that "algorithm" isn't a s......
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