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RE: Oddly-birthed geographical names
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Back to the original subject. Gnaw Bone, Indiana, supposedly came from a mishearing of the original......
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November 04, 2003 21:23
RE: Polygamy
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I note without comment the antepenultimate word in the first sentence. NEW DELHI, Oct 24 (OneWorld)......
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November 04, 2003 21:07
RE: Gallic Words
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Exactly, winterbranch. The spelling is ......
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November 03, 2003 21:32
RE: Risible/Ludicrous/Ridiculous
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Interesting question, Asa. A web note offers the view, "This was originally a fly fisherman's term d......
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November 02, 2003 11:54
RE: Do you question everything?
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Do tuits come in any form other than the round one?...
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October 29, 2003 17:50
RE: Quotations
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Though I've never read ......
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October 29, 2003 17:43
RE: Bi-
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Carrying this further: We have other, perfectly good words to mean "every two weeks," etc. ......
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October 29, 2003 17:34
RE: Bi-
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American Heritage Dictionary tangles the whole thing into an unholy mess. For the ......
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October 29, 2003 17:23
RE: Oddly-birthed geographical names
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I just stumbled on this report in the press: ......
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October 26, 2003 11:05
The cost of poor English
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Kalleh said ......
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October 26, 2003 10:35
Polygamy
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Two questions: For "polygamy", meaning multiple spouses, we have two separate subwords: "polyandry......
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October 23, 2003 08:09
RE: Do you question everything?
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Could a ......
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October 20, 2003 16:41
A weird example of the global importance of English
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Apparently Korean parents, hoping to improve their children's pronunciation of English, are now prov......
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October 20, 2003 09:45
RE: Oddly-birthed geographical names
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I vaguely recall hearing that Exton, Pennsylvania was named because the location, on a map, was mark......
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October 10, 2003 07:43
RE: Oddly-birthed geographical names
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From the web: In 1927, two geologists, responsible for naming many of the small streams in Alaska,......
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October 09, 2003 18:47
RE: Revanchism
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Interesting word. I like it. Etymology on line says, "revanchist - 'one seeking to avenge Germany'......
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October 03, 2003 21:42
RE: Catechresis
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I looked it up in one-look, and found the spelling slightly different: "catachresis". ......
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October 01, 2003 22:29
"Lasering" in the health insurance industry
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The newspaper explains this new word better than I could. (I've simplified the quotation.)......
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October 01, 2003 08:32
New word: digital shoplifting
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The news reports a problem with the new camera phones. Bookstore customers are using them to snap a......
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October 01, 2003 08:18
RE: Six letters to fun--thread 5
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September 23, 2003 18:30
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