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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: Etymology: lasagna
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Curiously, the plural ......
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June 15, 2005 11:43
RE: Jerry did WHAT?
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They're not the same: jerry-building is incompetent, but jury-rigging is merely temporary, and is co......
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June 09, 2005 23:17
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: Pronunciation again...
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I can't speak for 'realtor', which doesn't exist in Britain, but the other is really two words, 'jew......
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June 09, 2005 01:08
RE: Lock of Hair
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June 08, 2005 15:28
RE: Jerry did WHAT?
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Phonetically, jerry-rig seems to be an alteration of jury-rig by association with the unrelated and ......
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June 08, 2005 13:06
RE: Jerry did WHAT?
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Well this is interesting. The original term is jury-mast, a temporary or helping mast, and from that......
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June 08, 2005 12:43
RE: Lock of Hair
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No, not German, Germanic. Common ancestor of English, German/Dutch, and Scandinavian....
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June 08, 2005 12:35
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: Lock of Hair
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Lock the hair (OE ......
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June 07, 2005 23:13
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
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