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RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum
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Probably the ......
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Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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September 06, 2004 00:53
RE: Cultural Differences 2
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Cat: I've seen the photos and I second Kalleh....
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September 02, 2004 09:21
RE: Scruples
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The distinction is in Latin, and they were borrowed separately. Latin had a word ......
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August 30, 2004 00:35
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August 28, 2004 13:20
RE: Hugo's How To Avoid Incorrect English
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August 28, 2004 01:04
RE: "Dibs"
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While 'dibs' is grammatically normal ('I've got dibs on the X', 'to call dibs on X'), 'bags' is most......
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August 28, 2004 00:42
RE: Royal Language
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In the Court Circular, the daily gazette of royal appointments, they explicitly alternate: The Prin......
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August 20, 2004 05:20
RE: Mixed roots
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television, monolingual, monoplane...
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August 16, 2004 00:18
RE: Elide
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I've only ever seen it in the phonetic sense, but the dictionary says it can mean 'strike out, suppr......
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August 13, 2004 00:30
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Blind: Longstreet. I can't remember anything about the show, but after Ironside it seemed they were ......
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August 11, 2004 01:37
RE: Gantlet vs. gauntlet
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I've never seen the spelling 'gantlet' in actual use, but apparently it's an American variant for bo......
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August 11, 2004 01:23
RE: An etymology question
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Rather the opposite: comfort = strengthen (......
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August 10, 2004 00:46
RE: Is this an oxymoron?
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One of my favourite terms in economics is 'dead cat bounce': the apparent upturn in the economy or a......
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August 07, 2004 09:59
RE: The Color of Words
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I'm not synaesthetic by any means, but I find I have vague associations of that kind. I suspect they......
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August 07, 2004 09:33
RE: Is this an oxymoron?
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Well my Chambers includes 'boasting, a bold lie' as one of the senses, but doesn't mark it as from a......
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August 06, 2004 11:10
RE: Is this an oxymoron?
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There are about 4000 ghits for "negative bounce", half of which are for Kerry. Almost all the rest a......
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August 05, 2004 00:50
RE: British regional accents
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Ah, I'd seen that before, the British Library archive. Unfortunately I've just got a script error tr......
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August 03, 2004 05:26
RE: Hashing
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The original game I know as steeplechasing. There's also a game called hare and hounds, which I woul......
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August 02, 2004 01:09
RE: Dirty words (politicaly speaking)
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