Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results
Page 1 ... 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26
Go
New
Find
Tools
Search Results: (502 matches) New Search Login/Join 

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, ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
To clarify jheem's explanation: ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

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 ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: A self-contradictory word (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: A theory on "theory" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In science a theory is a ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Back-to-front words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Greek is a palindrome: PS is the letter psi....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Odd fruits (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I believe a cantaloupe is also called a rock melon....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

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......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Mostly diacritics indicate some differing pronunciation, but not always. The circumflex in French is......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Laauhuahua (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I haven't an answer, but I'll point out there are probably more consonants in some of those words: t......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
When I do Web-hit tests I sometimes rerun them to eliminate what seem to be biases in the top result......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Poll  RE: 'concrete' - pronunciation? regional? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Initial stress only, though I have free variation between CON- and CONG-. I've never heard con-CRETE......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Everyday (in Potpourri) by aput
I agree entirely that they're distinct; and a literate person should feel the difference as they wou......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: Foundering (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Those metaphors aren't quite dead yet. I've got an image of the M.V. ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words


» Refine Search
» New Search

  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 ... 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 

Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results

Copyright © 2002-12