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| english is unstructured? | 02 Oct 2006 07:31 GMT | 109 |
if you say the word pathologist you say patholo - gist
if you say the word pathological you say patho - logical
for a stranger to learn english you need to explain to him/her why they
are different.
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| ff at the beginning of a word (usually a proper name?) | 02 Oct 2006 04:38 GMT | 3 |
What is the explanation or origin of a spelling like ffrench? Is it
possibly the case that ff is simply an alternate way to do something
like capitalize? I'm just curious.
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| Thinking cap | 02 Oct 2006 02:14 GMT | 25 |
Went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Royal Academy yesterday. In all
the pictures I've seen of "The Thinker", I've never noticed that he
wears a sort of cap. Which set me thinking about the expression
"thinking cap" and where it comes from. A quick Ggle deosn't seem to
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| australian rocket | 01 Oct 2006 22:23 GMT | 11 |
I correspond from Canada with someone in Australia with whom I exchange
recipes. This person in an email referred to "rocket" and it took me
some time to figure out that this meant what I wiuld call "arugula."
I'm assuming that "rocket" comes from the French "roquette." Can
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| Iran says backs | 01 Oct 2006 21:22 GMT | 1 |
Iran says backs OPEC push for "acceptable" oil price.
http://tinyurl.com/j5cwb
Apart from being uglier, is that different from "Iran backs OPEC
push..."?
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| Layette | 01 Oct 2006 19:03 GMT | 2 |
Someone asked me why a set of clothes for a small baby is called a
"layette". That was easy enough to look up: apparently, it comes from a
French word for box: "laye".
That got me wondering about another French-sounding word for a set of
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| Name pronunciation | 01 Oct 2006 17:47 GMT | 21 |
It's often a problem when I see a name in football news to
know how to pronounce it. At the moment I'm curious about
how to pronounce the name of the current Newcastle manager,
Glen Roeder.
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| "such that" | 01 Oct 2006 17:41 GMT | 27 |
"Craftily, he arranged matters such that his best friend would
turn out to be the prize winner."
Is "such that" correct here? Or should it be "in such a way that"?
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| "puzzle making" | 01 Oct 2006 15:01 GMT | 18 |
When you say, "My hobby is puzzle making," what does it mean?
a) Does it mean you like to 'create' new puzzles?
b) Or does it mean you just like to 'solve' or 'do' puzzles?
Probably your answer is 'Yes to a)', but I just cannot realize that
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| ***Important Announcement. I Mean It this Time.*** | 01 Oct 2006 05:41 GMT | 18 |
Hi friends. It's me again. I have a very important announcement to
make. Oh, I know what you're all thinking ("Yeah right, Wavy; what is
it this time? Got a 38k rant on the pandemic 'nacho chip-to-cheese
ratio' problem that's been plaguing our society?" Hmm. Hey, good
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