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RE: Caucasian
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The ethnic 'race' is a word very generally meaning stock, breed, descent, progeny, kind. You can tal......
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September 16, 2004 00:58
RE: "Metanalysis"? "Faulty separation"?
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The general term I use is 'reanalysis', and more specifically 'resegmentation'. I find this latter i......
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September 16, 2004 00:46
RE: Richelieu
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It seems to be an error of allusion. I suspect they were thinking of Père Joseph, the ......
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September 12, 2004 23:49
RE: Taino hurricane
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These are all terms for artefacts, plants, and so on that were new to the Europeans, so they would h......
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September 12, 2004 13:42
RE: Middle English
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One highly visible change from OE to ME is the phonetic reduction that changed the grammar: the comp......
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September 12, 2004 00:46
RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite
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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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September 11, 2004 06:15
RE: Scottish Pairlament wabsite
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Oh yes, quite serious. As I remember, the public signs around the parliament in Edinburgh are only i......
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September 10, 2004 15:12
RE: Dipthong pronunciation question
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Interesting discovery. I hadn't noticed I do this, but I do tend to make the /l/ syllabic in isolati......
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September 09, 2004 23:46
RE: Briti?ism
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I think ......
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September 08, 2004 23:48
RE: "Balkanized"
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September 08, 2004 16:11
RE: "Balkanized"
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During the recent series of civil wars in Yugoslavia, Crown Prince Alexander wrote a letter to the p......
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September 08, 2004 13:03
RE: Caucasian
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I did some work for a borough council on their ethnic monitoring, and their forms had two further bo......
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September 08, 2004 12:19
RE: Caucasian
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But we don't classify humanity into a tall race and a short race (except in The Goodies' apartheight......
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September 06, 2004 13:18
RE: Risus, rictus, rideo and risum
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Probably the ......
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September 06, 2004 01:05
RE: Caucasian
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Race might exist if the world consisted of white people in Scandinavia, black people in Congo, and y......
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September 06, 2004 00:53
RE: Pronunciations
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It isn't mispronouncing! Not if people around you say it like that....
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September 03, 2004 15:46
RE: wool and yarn
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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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September 03, 2004 01:58
RE: Pronunciations
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For me: gigabyte with a [g], mauve with the GOAT vowel [@U], err with the NURSE vowel [3:], and erro......
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September 03, 2004 01:43
RE: wool and yarn
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SOED dates 'wool' sense ......
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September 01, 2004 08:29
wool and yarn
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I keep coming across American knitters who are buying yarn to make things with. I know little about ......
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