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Discussion Topic  RE: Flying high (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
"Person who flies a balloon" is one of the meanings 1852 Illustr. London News 18 Sept. 224/3 Lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: That many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
So English "coomb" dates from 770 and is possibly borrowed from Celtic. But English "cwm" was borrow......
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Discussion Topic  RE: That many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
According to the OED "cwm" dates from 1859 and "slogan" from 1513. If we're talking about when the w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: That many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: That many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
As far as I know, "Old English" means "Anglo-Saxon". Anglo-Saxon is pre Roman. All of the words in m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: That many? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
I'd say it was much lower than that....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Which Who? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
We say "Doctors" with no "who". It sounds a bit weird to me when people refer to the character as "D......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are we having gay? (in Potpourri) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's up, Governor? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
Because "gubernatorial" is the adjective form. It's directly from Latin while "government" is thru F......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untermensch (in Potpourri) by goofy
As I understand it, it's warmer when there are clouds because the clouds hold in the heat....
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Discussion Topic  RE: hashtag (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
Keith Houston's excellent book ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Incivility (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: hashtag (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
The # symbol is sometimes called "hash mark" or "hash sign", probably from "hatch" because it looks ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untermensch (in Potpourri) by goofy
It's true though, in the winter....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untermensch (in Potpourri) by goofy
In the Red Dwarf episode ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rites to passage (in Questions & Answers about Words) by goofy
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Discussion Topic  RE: hƿæt (in The Written Word) by goofy
æ (ash) used to be a letter, as well as ƿ (wynn) and þ (thorn) and ð (eth)....
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Discussion Topic  RE: hƿæt (in The Written Word) by goofy
Thanks z. So he's saying the sentence is exclamatory, but that the hwæt shouldn't be translated as a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: hƿæt (in The Written Word) by goofy
But what about "Now, we have heard of the might of kings" or "Well, we have heard of the might of ki......
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