Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2007

Does "made mouths" mean "make faces?" BrE-specific?
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She wept in her pain and made mouths
Talked and tore though her eyes smiled.

Is this common, "clock-round?"
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... that figurative world in which we "truly live," that accompanies our
daily clock-round.

Hi! Can anyone help me?
I read an phylosophical article, and got confused with the phrases as
following:
... Marx and Comte, overturns the position of Hegel, who reduced

I have question: where and in what cases I can use either of the verb
form 'hid' or 'hidden' as past parciple of 'hide'?
* I have hid.
* I have hidden.

Does anybody have a derivation for the (Yorkshire?) phrase "to play
pop with" (meaning to shout at or berate someone). To me it conjures
up the explosiveness of a bottle of carbonated drink, but it may
predate such inventions.

Oxford University Press has started a "dictionary blog," with Ben
Zimmer (a sometime poster at aue) as columnist.  The link, and three
paragraphs of great stuff from his first column, are set out below:
http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/dictionary/

A directrice is a headmistress, yes? I was reading a book
about a French school and came upon it. I can only find
it in one dictionary:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=directrice

Here are three sentences,please advise,many thanks
The mass of experimental evidences convincingly shows that the current
consensus on this problem is incorrect. Is "mass" correct?
There are infinitely many possible x's and, for a given x, still many

Two-way radios these days usually have a "call" button, which can be
used sent an alert tone to get the attention of the other communicant(s)
on the same channel. I'm looking for a verb that refers to the the act
of getting the attention of another party by transmitting an alert ...

When coining words, how should I choose which of these four suffixes
to use?
~Iain

"If you find this, please return this xxx to (some address)"
I'm wondering if any of you have seen this kind of note or wording in
the back of some notebooks or some important belongings. Is it ok to write:
"__If you found this__, please return this xxx to (...)"

As you know, there's this American teenage drama named "Dawson's
Creek".
As I looked up the word, "Creek",
"A creek is a small stream or river."

Who is it do you think?  IMO, I've narrowed it down to Steinbeck,
Hemmingway, and Faulkner...all great in their own right.  Just doing
some surveys for a project I'm working on so I'd appreciate any input
from knowledgable readers.  For recording purposes, please vote here:

Hello, please teach me about this phrase - "has goes", what tense is
it, and when do I use it etc..?  I received a letter yesterday with
this sentense:
"The Presiding Invigilator will not admit any candidate who has goes