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RE: Group Nouns
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A column of accountants, and, a little closer to home, a table of actuaries....
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July 30, 2004 06:40
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Pleased to confirm for wordcrafter I've made a "close" inspection of the OED. (Being near sighted, I......
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July 26, 2004 16:38
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I've never liked the term "virtual reality," on the belief that "reality" ought not take modifiers. ......
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June 15, 2004 10:03
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Or....periphrastically pleonastic. Or....circumlocutory prolixity. When my little guy asked "what d......
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May 24, 2004 13:12
RE: "Dutch" phrases
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Nice correlation, markmywords.. I suspect that human nature always makes the next-country-over to s......
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May 22, 2004 11:23
RE: "Dutch" phrases
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Thank you for starting the thread -- The one on Securities Markets was already morphing into this, f......
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May 18, 2004 08:12
RE: From the securities markets
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Next we'll hear that there's no relationship amongst: Dutch uncle, double-dutch, Dutch concert, Dutc......
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May 17, 2004 11:04
RE: From the securities markets
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I suspect 'dead cat' is a tribute to the ability of cats to land on their feet, unlike the stockbrok......
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May 16, 2004 04:32
RE: From the securities markets
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Good connection jheem. Perhaps you'll add "brownian" to the eponym page? Imagine flipping a (fai......
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May 14, 2004 10:32
RE: From the securities markets
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Historical footnote -- Investment banks purport to represent both those who have money (investors) ......
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May 13, 2004 08:46
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I have heard an early use of "underwriter," in the insurance sense of the word. When first explorin......
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May 12, 2004 09:54
RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words
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Interesting note on double superlatives brings to mind a thought on "grade inflation" for adjectives......
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March 18, 2004 05:11
RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words
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It seems even the Romans "kept up with the Jones.." Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name give......
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March 16, 2004 05:31
RE: The Ides of March: Caesar words
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A brief check of National Geographic site confirms the Roman practice, that interest was due on the ......
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March 15, 2004 19:09
RE: Diet of Worms
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Excellent explanation of homo-nym/-phone/-graph. I once collected multiple-homo-sets. For example:......
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March 10, 2004 14:44
RE: Diacritical Marks
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jheem wrote: "Wouldn't somebody in Russian use Cyrillic ш?" I suspect the writer was thinking of ho......
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February 17, 2004 08:23
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Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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February 13, 2004 14:54
Hybrid words
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No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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February 03, 2004 17:03
RE: An aptronym?
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I find an interesting etymology, more jocular than learned: ......
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February 03, 2004 16:52
RE: Diacritical Marks
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Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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January 31, 2004 11:12
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