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| New year resolutions | 03 Jan 2004 00:05 GMT | 24 |
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| Geminate and unassimilated nasal consonants in English | 02 Jan 2004 22:12 GMT | 38 |
A couple of years ago John Lawler wrote:
> Just as the /n/ in "sink" gets assimilated to a velar /N/ to match
> the following velar /k/, the extra /n/ in "government" gets assimilated
> to the following labial /m/ and thus pronounced /m/, which we then |
| for my wife and I | 02 Jan 2004 21:38 GMT | 284 |
Still musing about this pronoun question, I ran some searches with some
surprising results. As those who've been watching will know, it is rare
to find a "mistake" outnumbering the "standard" usage on the Web --
contrary to what some grinches assume. Yet this formula seems to do it.
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| OED 2nd Ed. on CD-ROM, version 3 | 02 Jan 2004 19:27 GMT | 25 |
I paid US$203 for it, US$17 to have it shipped to Taiwan, about an hour
or so of frustration to install it, and it was worth every penny and
second spent. Soooooooooo much better than version 1.14, which cost
twice as much.
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| I an m feeling 'doely'? | 02 Jan 2004 18:16 GMT | 2 |
Does anyone know where the expression 'I am feeling doely' came from?
Also, how is 'doely' spelled correctly since I can't find this word in
the dictionary. TIA, Dan
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| SIR Tim Berners-Lee | 02 Jan 2004 17:27 GMT | 3 |
Tried to think of a wisecrack about the announcement of a deserved
knighthood for Tim Berners-Lee, but couldn't get beyond feeble stuff
about a world-wide white knight and dot commander of the Bath bubbles.
Somebody else will be wittier. Good news, though.
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| _Wage Slave_ | 02 Jan 2004 14:31 GMT | 3 |
Could someone with an OED handy please quote the first three recorded
uses of the term _WAGE SLAVE_ to us?
Thank You.
D. Spencer Hines
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| Dodgy accents in films. | 02 Jan 2004 13:24 GMT | 68 |
The thread about Vernon God Little made me think about the dodgy
British or early American accents I've heard in films.
I still love "Mary Poppins" despite Dick Van Dyke's cocked-up cockney.
And Pacino's ludicrous accent in "Revolution" was the least of the
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| I am in the News!!! | 02 Jan 2004 12:44 GMT | 2 |
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031231/ap_on_re_us/banished_
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-Joe Reynolds
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
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| "Roths-child" or "Roth-schild"? | 02 Jan 2004 09:27 GMT | 6 |
A line-end hyphen in David Kertzer's book _The_Kidnapping_
_of_Edgardo_Mortara_ (an excellent history of an episode in the
19th-century persecution of Jews in Italy and its role in the
Risorgimento) puts the line-end hyphen in "Rothschild" between
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| I'm sorry you should have been here so long ... | 02 Jan 2004 09:07 GMT | 5 |
Hello, everyone:
Happy New Year!
Would appreciate any pointers on this "should"-related usage:
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| Wedding of the year (Nuptial non-boink) | 02 Jan 2004 05:59 GMT | 8 |
Your Correspondent writes:
The bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome, the ceremony was
moving, the guests were witty and debonair, the food and wine were
excellent. Privileged participants included Respected Irregulars Mike
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| question about tenses | 02 Jan 2004 05:02 GMT | 2 |
When I read a terrifying story yesterday, it scared me. I tell this to
my friends. I should say "It scares me" or "It scared me". I want to
tell my friends that the story is frigthening.
Thanks
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| Epicenter, 1868 | 02 Jan 2004 01:23 GMT | 6 |
Queen Victoria: Next you will be telling me that the Crown no
longer governs this nation!
Disraeli: Your Majesty remains at the very epicenter of governance.
Those lines are from the film "Mrs Brown" (1997), thus giving the
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| runt | 02 Jan 2004 01:16 GMT | 4 |
Is the word " runt" below used to mean the " smallest " among others?
Or does the author intend to imply that the trailer is inferior in
quality as well as small in the size?
I walked outside. My father's camper was a runt among the others in the
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