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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Anantapodoton is given there as a specific form of anapodoton, closer to the required sense. I'm not......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
*is puzzled* Link is to Silva Rhetoricae, whose main page is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Rhetorical Device (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The closest I can find is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: datum and data (in Potpourri) by aput
zmjezhd's point is more than that. The example sentence is thoroughly ungrammatical, whatever you tr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British Bit (in Potpourri) by aput
It seems to be an idiom of long standing. Here's a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periodic Table (in The Written Word) by aput
Ah. Now I foresee a definite grammatical problem here. Almost the only thing that's going to work fo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vilipend (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Does it contain ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vilipend (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's long been one of my favourite words, for its sheer sound coupled with its splendid weight of me......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology of "counting" terms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dialect boundaries usually don't exist at all when you look at them in close enough detail. Where yo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology: lasagna (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Curiously, the plural ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They're not the same: jerry-building is incompetent, but jury-rigging is merely temporary, and is co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Salutations (in The Written Word) by aput
I've always preferred that too. I described myself earlier as possibly old-fashioned, because a lot......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation again... (in Potpourri) by aput
I can't speak for 'realtor', which doesn't exist in Britain, but the other is really two words, 'jew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Phonetically, jerry-rig seems to be an alteration of jury-rig by association with the unrelated and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Jerry did WHAT? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well this is interesting. The original term is jury-mast, a temporary or helping mast, and from that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, not German, Germanic. Common ancestor of English, German/Dutch, and Scandinavian....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Euphemisms make a mulligan for wrecklessness. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Never heard of 'mulligan'. And 'wrecklessly' has some 7000 ghits, many of which are evidently intend......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lock of Hair (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Lock the hair (OE ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Britannia (in Potpourri) by aput
The original personification was on Roman coins, with some of the attributes of the later representa......
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