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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: cognates: 'moon' and 'month' (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I can add a couple more from unrelated families: Chechen ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think the use of 'coruscating' is a simple confusion between words that sound similar and are both......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literally (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Normally I say a word means whatever people use it to mean. This is of course fuzzy: does 'coruscati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: feedback as a countable noun (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
This is still in use: I am feeling poorly. It has rather an old-fashioned feel for me, and I'd be mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I forget what the ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: rat fink (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by aput
The key pair is the noun 'advice' and verb 'advise'. I'm not 100% sure that what I'm about to say is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Phonics (in Potpourri) by aput
The phonemes: in my accent there are about 44 phonemes, 24 consonants and 20 vowels. In some other a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dark Horses (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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