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RE: Icelandic Names
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They use not just an -s- but whatever the appropriate possessive ending is. The son of Ólafur......
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April 11, 2004 07:53
RE: (Condolence) Letter from America
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under ground: a mole or deceased underground: in a region beneath the ground hm, curious...
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April 08, 2004 16:30
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The telephone was invented by an Italian living in Cuba, Antonio Meucci. Bell unfairly got the credi......
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April 06, 2004 00:07
RE: Knowledgeableness
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In that context, I can't see much difference in replacing 'knowledgeableness' with 'knowledge', but ......
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April 02, 2004 08:41
RE: Least used letter?
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That other site is a list counted by different words: that is, ignoring the fact that 'the' and othe......
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March 30, 2004 22:49
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Well Jane accounts for 284 of the J's, but you expect rather a lot of J names. It's only the Z's tha......
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March 27, 2004 13:30
RE: Least used letter?
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I make it 947 Z's, in the edition on the 'Republic of Pemberley', but close enough. But Z has such a......
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March 27, 2004 09:44
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A live experiment on a mini-corpus: the first thousand words of ......
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March 27, 2004 01:59
RE: Least used letter?
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Z. Letter frequencies were counted in the nineteenth century so that typesetters would have suitabl......
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March 27, 2004 01:20
RE: "Defective lexical items"
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["aput] Now don't get started on my geography. My first attempts were things like 'Oats is noted fo......
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March 27, 2004 00:59
RE: "Defective lexical items"
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The number is given by agreement. 'Oats' is plural by most tests: Wheat is grown in Canada. Oats ar......
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March 26, 2004 12:51
RE: Back-to-front words
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The term I've heard of for it is ......
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March 24, 2004 11:23
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March 23, 2004 00:08
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The ......
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March 22, 2004 23:58
RE: Diet of Worms
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March 22, 2004 23:31
RE: Caliph
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The caliph (Arabic ......
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March 22, 2004 13:21
RE: "Defective lexical items"
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Yes I did have. jheem is right: there's a fundamental grammatical difference between count and mass......
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March 21, 2004 00:22
RE: What is (or is not) a "word"?
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That's a very, very sensible essay and I agree wholeheartedly with how it makes all those distinctio......
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March 11, 2004 10:24
RE: Diet of Worms
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Homonym is a catch-all term for two words that are the same: could be same sound (homophone), same s......
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March 08, 2004 23:42
RE: Diet of Worms
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Calque: using a word or words that has a non-standard sense in one language and borrowing that same ......
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March 06, 2004 23:33
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