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RE: Oh My God!
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(Pyri)phlegethon shares an etymology with phlogiston theory, the precursor of modern chemistry's und......
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April 23, 2010 09:58
Why so dead?
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There are a number of expressions with "dead" as an unlikely modifier: dead certain dead eye dead g......
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September 18, 2009 05:18
RE: Postpositive Adjectives
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In "Rabbit Redux" critics feel John Updike returned to a character in the most positive sense possib......
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August 12, 2009 09:13
Floral Terms
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Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal, on the origins of floral terms. ......
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July 04, 2009 08:07
Inseparable words versus separts
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There are a number of words where the "separated" form is unable to stand alone. For example, while......
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May 27, 2009 18:30
RE: There's a name that body-thing?!
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...which is why we refer to the epicanthic fold....
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March 19, 2009 15:24
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Etymological geography, or, if you prefer, geographical etymology: ......
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January 14, 2009 09:48
RE: Parseltongue
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neveu: Any relation between the "division" sense of "parcel," and the "two-pronged fork" of "pasti......
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November 05, 2008 14:27
RE: Parseltongue
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That's the fascinating thing about language. No matter how inventive we are, we are still grounded ......
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November 05, 2008 06:59
Parseltongue
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J K Rowling calls the speech of snakes "Parseltongue." Any thoughts on the etymology? From etymonl......
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November 04, 2008 17:27
Collective opinion
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This being my best source of word wisdom, I ask the collective opinion. Is it good construction, is......
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September 12, 2008 07:46
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Over at Vocabulary the "Terms with Numbers" thread inspired a thought about movie numbers (that is "......
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September 04, 2008 04:40
RE: Gulliver's Travels
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Surely not the end of Swift's invention! One last term - "Struldbrug," for a race where no one ever......
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September 02, 2008 05:00
RE: Gulliver's Travels
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Seeing "senectitude," "senile" and "senior" reminds me that there is a female equivalent -- anile. ......
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August 30, 2008 08:19
RE: US Independence Day
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Etymonline says as early as the 1300s. "Haca's or Hook's Island" became "Hackney" where they raised......
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July 08, 2008 09:03
Purveyor versus Procurer
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The newspapers report "the Mann Act has been used...in prostitution cases, although normally it was ......
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March 12, 2008 06:16
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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"And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and clene sheep." In the sense of soiled......
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December 25, 2007 08:08
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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Excellent observation. In Frye's scheme, mythic means god-like powers, the heroic has more control ......
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December 23, 2007 11:01
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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In "Anatomy of Criticism" Northop Frye proposed that literature moves in cycles, that it evolves (de......
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December 22, 2007 05:09
Extraordinary superlatives
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The vocabulary thread entry chili dogs brings to mind a new kind of superlative, as in "Evil con car......
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September 19, 2007 15:36
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