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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Dispersing (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Dispersing means not just scattering, which would be appropriate for knowledge, but generally implie......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "syntopic" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Actually I learnt 'synoptic' from weather charts, and for a long time that was the only thing I knew......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I happened to come across a realistic example of this just this morning. It confirmed the idea that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Twenty O Six (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: (Pre)(As)sume (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In that particular context, nothing I can see. But for me, as a mathematician, 'presume' has some fa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Skeat's etymological dictionary cites a few more Scandinavian cognates: Mid. Swed. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Basically, 'cut' comes from some Scandinavian word, though the recorded exemplars are not enough to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The OED is missing the required nuance then: while it shows that AmE preserves the original sense of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cryptozoology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Certainly. There's nothing intrinsically impossible about many of the cryptid stories -- just very v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Judas goat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Another useful employee is the Tennessee fainting goat. It has a genetic defect that means its legs ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Reoccur; recur (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Cutlery (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Cutlery for me is knives, forks, spoons and the like (I hadn't even registered the possible connexio......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are these words duplicates? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, in biology replication is a complex process, much more than merely duplication or copying. And ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are these words duplicates? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting: I've had discussions about this before. Both are used in a variety of situations, they'......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Fortuitously" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
If he meant 'fortuitously', it's unexplained why it is. It would be fortuitous if they had decided t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Looming deadlines (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Yes, I'd read that. That's what I meant by 'unknown'. :-)...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Looming deadlines (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The words are unrelated. The noun is an old word originally for any tool (as in 'heirloom'), while t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bucket vs. Pail (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me, and I can only speak for standard southern English not involved in specialist occupations, t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Singular or plural (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Both agreements are common, so there's no question of either being 'improper'. Structurally the rel......
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