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Discussion Topic  RE: Moslem vs. Muslim (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Johnson: bomb them Carter: I want to have sexual intercourse with Polish people Bush 1: *vomit* N......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "into" vs. "unto" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A person who dies goes into Heaven. A thing on the Earth that rises up to a great height gets near u......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
Sharp differentiation between dialects or accents is usually illusory. If two dialects are distingui......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Language Log had some problems this morning. They're back up now, and are usually quite reliable. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Moslem vs. Muslim (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Classical Arabic only had three vowels [a i u], and the word was Muslim. Modern Arabic dialects ofte......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Psycholinguistics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Serendipitously, Geoff Pullum ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Regional accents (in Potpourri) by aput
As jheem says, it's basically amount of time. There are other factors, such as degree of isolation, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To clarify jheem's explanation: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: discern (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Well it certainly can't be used as a mere synonym of 'comprehend'/'understand': *I can't discern wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Master (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Master was formerly used of grown men -- "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man" --, a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer Names (in Potpourri) by aput
Cloris Leachman? The one who was... was it Phyllis on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? *tries to put dates......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Compl__mentary (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For once the OED doesn't give us a nice graded series of senses. The words appeared in English with ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The usage is called litotes. It uses the negative of one sense to mean the opposite: no fool, no slo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A self-contradictory word (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: A theory on "theory" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In science a theory is a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Irish is the only language I can think of where there's been a big reform of the spelling. It's also......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lerning to spel is crewshul (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Lerning to spell may be important, but getting the reesons rite is too. Changing dubble consonants t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is a palindrome: PS is the letter psi....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Odd fruits (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I believe a cantaloupe is also called a rock melon....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spam, Beyssian filters and word-salad (in The Written Word) by aput
The way to avoid the word-salad on the Web is (for now) surprisingly simple. All those spam pages ar......
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