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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Auxin does indeed cause plants to expand on the side AWAY from light. Therefore word-lovers may tak......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Our topic is characters from Greek Myth. While not mythical, Pyrrhus was a "character" - perhaps we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Scanning the list, one sees our administrator has given us an elevated tone. At the risk of punctur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Do we consider the oracle at Delphi a character? If so, perhaps we may admit "delphic," which the O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Arnie's post triggers a memory about early forms of "goddess groups," in this case, proto-sets of "C......
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Discussion Topic  RE: It's about time. (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Among this learned body, would we scorn "ephemeral" as insufficiently obscure? RJA...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
An interesting link to round out the gloss on "Plutus" at ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
On plutocrat -- Random House unabridged (1967)cites "Plutus, god personifying wealth, sometimes comf......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
My heritage is indeed Greek. And if you permit just a little stretching of language, I would transl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Characters from Greek Myth (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Robert Arvanitis
Ahh, sweet bliss of a "target rich environment." Is it too obvious to leap immediately to all the a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Toponyms challenge (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Perhaps we can include the "bialy," the bagel's cousin, named after the town of Bialystok? RJA...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
jheem wrote: "Wouldn't somebody in Russian use Cyrillic ш?" I suspect the writer was thinking of ho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Off the thread of the discussion, but related to the posted theme --- Sometimes a college student in......
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Discussion Topic  Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Listening (involuntarily) to Japanese anime theme music, the thought occurs: What is the interplay ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
The Greek root "comos" means "revel." So if an en-comos is what we offer at a revel, it has the fee......
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Discussion Topic  Hybrid words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
No ancient Greek or Roman would have used a word like "carbohydrate," even if they wanted to lose we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: An aptronym? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
I find an interesting etymology, more jocular than learned: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Ran across an interesting usage "Taškent," versus the more usual "Tashkent." Someone in the Russian......
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Discussion Topic  Viral Language (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
Has Wordcraft ever had a discussion of "viral language?" By that I mean the differences among (i) a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Robert Arvanitis
There is an interesting list of many punctuation marks with origins at: ......
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