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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Richelieu (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It seems to be an error of allusion. I suspect they were thinking of Père Joseph, the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Taino hurricane (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
These are all terms for artefacts, plants, and so on that were new to the Europeans, so they would h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Middle English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
It's not a special kind of language, it's just a dialect of English like any other. The difference i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite (in Potpourri) by aput
Oh yes, quite serious. As I remember, the public signs around the parliament in Edinburgh are only i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Briti?ism (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I think ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Balkanized" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
During the recent series of civil wars in Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander wrote a letter to the p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I did some work for a borough council on their ethnic monitoring, and their forms had two further bo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Probably the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caucasian (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It isn't mispronouncing! Not if people around you say it like that....
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
No, I meant you write 'my mom knit, but I didn't', whereas I would write 'knitted' for that past ten......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
For me: gigabyte with a [g], mauve with the GOAT vowel [@U], err with the NURSE vowel [3:], and erro......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
SOED dates 'wool' sense ......
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Discussion Topic  wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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