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RE: Grammar Police as Editors
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For me the idiom is 'as best they can'; I would say that, but I can't say 'as best as they can', whi......
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January 14, 2006 00:08
RE: Dispersing
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Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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January 14, 2006 00:01
RE: "syntopic"
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Actually I learnt 'synoptic' from weather charts, and for a long time that was the only thing I knew......
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January 12, 2006 11:57
RE: (Pre)(As)sume
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I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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January 10, 2006 16:41
RE: Twenty O Six
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For me the years of this decade are only two thousand and six, not twenty oh six (we don't have the ......
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January 09, 2006 12:09
RE: (Pre)(As)sume
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In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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January 09, 2006 11:58
RE: Cutlery
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Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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January 01, 2006 23:16
RE: Cutlery
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Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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January 01, 2006 15:57
RE: Cutlery
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The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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January 01, 2006 04:12
RE: Cryptozoology
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Certainly. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about many of the cryptid stories -- just very v......
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December 30, 2005 14:00
RE: Judas goat
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Another useful employee is the Tennessee fainting goat. It has a genetic defect that means its legs ......
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December 29, 2005 10:17
RE: Reoccur; recur
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I look rather askance at 'reoccur': for me the natural term for this is 'recur', and I think I've ch......
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December 26, 2005 23:39
RE: Cutlery
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Cutlery for me is knives, forks, spoons and the like (I hadn't even registered the possible connexio......
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December 26, 2005 23:32
RE: Are these words duplicates?
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Yes, in biology replication is a complex process, much more than merely duplication or copying. And ......
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December 26, 2005 13:20
RE: Are these words duplicates?
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Interesting: I've had discussions about this before. Both are used in a variety of situations, they'......
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December 22, 2005 12:58
RE: "Fortuitously"
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If he meant 'fortuitously', it's unexplained why it is. It would be fortuitous if they had decided t......
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December 22, 2005 12:40
RE: Looming deadlines
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Yes, I'd read that. That's what I meant by 'unknown'. :-)...
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December 21, 2005 12:53
RE: Looming deadlines
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The words are unrelated. The noun is an old word originally for any tool (as in 'heirloom'), while t......
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December 21, 2005 06:06
RE: Bucket vs. Pail
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For me, and I can only speak for standard southern English not involved in specialist occupations, t......
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December 21, 2005 05:58
RE: Singular or plural
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Both agreements are common, so there's no question of either being 'improper'. Structurally the rel......
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December 20, 2005 16:11
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