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RE: "gallows": why the plural?
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We think of the archetypal gallows as that single-posted thing constructed as you get letters wrong;......
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February 03, 2005 00:34
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I would agree with neveu: a theory in science is a consistent set of principles that generates expla......
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February 02, 2005 02:06
RE: Crotchety
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'Crook' is just slang in Australia, or perhaps colloquial: like much of their slang it's in common u......
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January 25, 2005 23:48
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January 24, 2005 09:07
RE: Crotchety
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> the sense of being hooked or bent or obvious. What a strange sentence. The sense of being hook......
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January 24, 2005 00:08
RE: Crotchety
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The related group is from a root ......
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January 23, 2005 06:49
RE: Feeling poorly
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The problem is that words in "-ly" are usually adverbs, but a few of them are adjectives. An adjecti......
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January 19, 2005 14:23
RE: Feeling poorly
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But 'feel' takes adjective complements: she feels tired, she feels irritable, she feels insulted....
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January 16, 2005 15:29
RE: Feeling poorly
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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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January 15, 2005 23:44
RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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What you're hearing in Brel or Piaf is, I believe, the uvular roll. The uvula actually rolls, the wa......
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January 15, 2005 12:17
RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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January 14, 2005 00:21
RE: Apostrophe again, sorry.
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January 11, 2005 14:10
RE: sea change
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Hm, I give myself 7/10, not too bad I suppose for one of the few occasions when I can't be bothered ......
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January 11, 2005 08:32
RE: sea change
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I do think it's much over-used these days. Though Fowler complained of it as a cliché in ......
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January 08, 2005 02:12
RE: rat fink
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Outside 'ratfink', I'd think anyone using it would be consciously echoing 'The King is a fink!'....
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January 04, 2005 23:56
RE: New words
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I would presume the contemporary use of 'defenestration' is in removing Windows -- to install Linux ......
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December 31, 2004 00:45
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A word only ever used facetiously. Archaism belongs in carefully archaic styles. Definitely to be av......
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December 26, 2004 00:34
RE: British vs. American English
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December 23, 2004 01:55
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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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December 22, 2004 12:36
RE: Dark Horses
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The Green Knight seems to have been a very bright green: in stanza 7 he's called ......
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