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Discussion Topic  RE: Colophon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
There's no suitable Greek suffix containing -ph- that could relate the two. Let's see what ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
Why? A completely unwarranted assumption. The grammatical difference is clear: one contains an 'and'......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I-me-we-us-you-you-you-you (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Strictly speaking, there is still a clear number distinction between singular ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Grammar Police as Editors (in The Written Word) by aput
I meant to look up last night what Huddleston and Pullum say about this in the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Colophon (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
It spooks me when my Sprachgefühl flags up a word I've never thought of in that context: but I ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
In the link, for Ayenbitel read Ayenbite IIRC = if I recall correctly...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
... and a few hints about Kentish, such as that it's a southern dialect and therefore has initial z ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Remorse and Remark (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's because there are two different prefixes ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Patois (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Patois, or Patwa or Kwéyòl, is also used as the name of the French-based Creoles of th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Oh well, inceptive and inchoative are the same thing grammatically. The '(?)' is there because for s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gnosis (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thole (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Good question, with no definite answer. Dictionary makers have to decide whether to set words out as......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The ancient uses of the term included both verbal irony -- saying one thing intending it to be taken......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'll' sound is some English accents (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The London sound is variously notated. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: eyes on -ize/-ise (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
-ize was widely used about 300 years ago, then -ise came (back?) in in Britain later. Around 1900 O......
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Discussion Topic  RE: refugee (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Potter Words and Wordplay; later books (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
Did Rowling use 'enervate' at all? No example is given. The spell command 'Ennervate', as with all h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: One sentence or two? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I am equivocal. Exclamation marks are definitely within the sentence in cases like: Alas! that ever......
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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: strange plurals inside the wordhoard (in Potpourri) by aput
There are two possible grammars for these constructions. The relative clause can attach to either th......
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