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RE: Wherefore why?
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There is a slight difference between 'wherefor' and 'wherefore'. In English the same words are, in g......
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August 12, 2005 01:55
RE: Rhetorical Device
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Anantapodoton is given there as a specific form of anapodoton, closer to the required sense. I'm not......
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July 21, 2005 00:58
RE: Rhetorical Device
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*is puzzled* Link is to Silva Rhetoricae, whose main page is ......
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July 20, 2005 01:11
RE: Rhetorical Device
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The closest I can find is ......
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July 19, 2005 01:39
RE: datum and data
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zmjezhd's point is more than that. The example sentence is thoroughly ungrammatical, whatever you tr......
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July 15, 2005 10:16
RE: British Bit
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It seems to be an idiom of long standing. Here's a ......
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July 15, 2005 01:27
RE: Periodic Table
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Ah. Now I foresee a definite grammatical problem here. Almost the only thing that's going to work fo......
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June 26, 2005 00:16
RE: Vilipend
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Does it contain ......
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June 25, 2005 23:55
RE: Vilipend
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It's long been one of my favourite words, for its sheer sound coupled with its splendid weight of me......
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June 24, 2005 10:30
RE: Etymology of "counting" terms
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Dialect boundaries usually don't exist at all when you look at them in close enough detail. Where yo......
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June 16, 2005 13:20
RE: Premature what?
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An otherwise mere vulgar insert is rendered masterly by 'at stool'....
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June 15, 2005 11:46
RE: Salutations
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I've always preferred that too. I described myself earlier as possibly old-fashioned, because a lot......
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June 09, 2005 01:21
RE: Euphemisms make a mulligan for wrecklessness.
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Never heard of 'mulligan'. And 'wrecklessly' has some 7000 ghits, many of which are evidently intend......
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June 08, 2005 00:58
RE: Britannia
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The original personification was on Roman coins, with some of the attributes of the later representa......
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June 07, 2005 03:03
RE: 'Hard words' from "River Horse"
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Indeed, the Macbeth is why any reasonably educated person should know 'incarnadine', as it instantly......
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June 05, 2005 11:08
RE: Salutations
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I use "Dear Madam/Sir" for an unknown addressee, and also use the standard distinction of "Yours fai......
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June 05, 2005 05:00
RE: Cornwall
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Another contemporary reference is the ......
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June 02, 2005 13:47
RE: Andragogy
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No, ......
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June 02, 2005 13:34
RE: Cornwall
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Yes, Spanish b/v, d, and g are all soft (lenited) between vowels. They're only explosive as in Engli......
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May 31, 2005 00:35
RE: Cornwall
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Right, well 705 clinches it. There appears to be no evidence ......
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