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Discussion Topic  RE: Unspelled Pronunciations (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting that we've retained the "k" sound in "schizophrenia." And the Orthodox clergy still ref......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Thanksgiving Feast (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Related to "prebend," the income from an estate....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Name that Nym (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Examples beyond measure: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words of US Politics (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Believe "pork barrel" means wasteful spending in general. Perhaps a quarter of federal spending is p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Offal Truth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Interesting to know how many words are really just direct collisions, like offal, "off-fall" or aton......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Learning New Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Sound rather like flat screen TV, where signals illuminate pixels. This takes the next step and mak......
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Discussion Topic  Collective opinion (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
This being my best source of word wisdom, I ask the collective opinion. Is it good construction, is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Learning New Words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
...and a relative of the pelota from jai alai and Mesoamerican ballgames (without the human sacrific......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms with Numbers (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Beleive it goes as follows: Whole, half and quarter notes have no "flags" flying. The eighth note ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms with Numbers (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Believe it should be hemidemisemiquaver. I had mnemonic in high-school, after the infamous class "H......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Robert Arvanitis
Is Wordcraft covered, in case a thread like this induces a certain...mania in members? I'm beginnin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Robert Arvanitis
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Discussion Topic  RE: Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Robert Arvanitis
Alas, the numbers continue to demand attention, just as in the Jim Carey flick "23." Then there's t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Physicists Humor (in The Written Word) by Robert Arvanitis
Took my degree in physics, and often sparred with the mathematicians, until one day it was all resol......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Robert Arvanitis
Valentine's fraction reminds me to include 9 1/2 Weeks. Does this mean we've leapt from integers ......
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Discussion Topic  Movie Numbers (in Potpourri) by Robert Arvanitis
Over at Vocabulary the "Terms with Numbers" thread inspired a thought about movie numbers (that is "......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms with Numbers (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Urban Dictionary claims it is from a famous speakeasy, Chumley's, at 86 Bedford Street, in NYC. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gulliver's Travels (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Surely not the end of Swift's invention! One last term - "Struldbrug," for a race where no one ever......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gulliver's Travels (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Seeing "senectitude," "senile" and "senior" reminds me that there is a female equivalent -- anile. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oxymorons (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
I tried but could not resist the temptation to note how "preposterous" calls to mind the inversion o......
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