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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
All of the clones should have some kind of identifying small print like "ripped off Wikipedia under ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is it still dirty if I at least TRY to clean it up? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think 'my turn in the barrel' is picturesque enough that it could be used on its own by someone wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 100? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
1337speak for loo?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word for the air bubble in an egg. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It's a bit confusing. As far as I can tell, the technical terms air cell and air sac are both used f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The book that suggests female activities were specifically important to language evolution is probab......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Derring-do (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
'Plow' was not its original spelling. The German is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elegant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The bell-shaped curve may be graceful, but it's distinctly inelegant in some ways. The general equat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: How broad is the word 'spam'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Chaff. I think that's the right term for the little strips of aluminium that nuclear-equipped aircra......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word needed for new web-spam (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I propose wikipollution. When I look up factual information now I need to try and work out what to s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Elegant (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I wouldn't call it academic or a buzzword. It's a term common in mathematics, and in sciences like p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's she like? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Angela Brazil (which, by the bye, is pronounced Brazzle): ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem with the Ancient Greek words is more that we're not sure what exactly they meant. There ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why so few words of 'color'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Some languages have only two basic colour words (warm/dark and light/cool); others have three (red s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Misuse of Words - What annoys you? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Technically that's rubbish. In English (that's English the human language, not the made-up imaginary......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Misuse of Words - What annoys you? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
They aren't being misused. Apart from 'adaption', which I don't know that I've ever heard or seen, a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English loanwords in France (in Potpourri) by aput
You would only be pronouncing ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Squaw" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The etymology is in no serious doubt. Massachusett [skwa] or similar, '(young) woman', from Proto-Al......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
If teachers "correct" children who say it, then it's grammatical for the children, because it's what......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is Grammar Dead? (in The Written Word) by aput
'Me and my dad' is definitely grammatical for almost everyone, and is almost certainly the most gram......
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Discussion Topic  RE: She's dead but I still talk about her. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... followed a few hours later by present rigid. Continuing states take, or can take, the present t......
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