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RE: Pronunciations
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I've never heard of anyone who pronounces 'monkey' /'maNki/ like 'donkey' /'doNki/, in any dialect. ......
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February 06, 2005 12:22
RE: British vs. American English
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Modern fonts or character maps ought to include the schwa symbol (upside-down e), since these days i......
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February 03, 2005 12:20
RE: cognates: 'moon' and 'month'
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I can add a couple more from unrelated families: Chechen ......
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February 02, 2005 07:56
RE: Literally
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I think the use of 'coruscating' is a simple confusion between words that sound similar and are both......
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January 24, 2005 00:16
RE: Literally
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Normally I say a word means whatever people use it to mean. This is of course fuzzy: does 'coruscati......
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January 23, 2005 01:25
RE: feedback as a countable noun
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I've never seen it used that way, but it makes sense: 'We've had two feedbacks asking about...'. An ......
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January 23, 2005 01:15
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: Perchlorate
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Weather verbs are normally regarded as valency 0: it rains, it thunders. In English we need a surfac......
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January 16, 2005 15:20
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: Perchlorate
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When I first learned those words in chemistry class, valence and valency were synonyms for me and I ......
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January 15, 2005 23:37
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: Perchlorate
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I forget what the ......
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January 14, 2005 00:31
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: 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: 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: Phonics
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The phonemes: in my accent there are about 44 phonemes, 24 consonants and 20 vowels. In some other a......
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December 22, 2004 01:07
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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