Discussion Groups / English Usage / April 2009

In the book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"
by Burton G. Malkiel I have encountered the following
terminology which appears neither in my
Merriam-Webster nor in in my Collins dictionary

Or, do you really want to post that pic on the interwebs?
http://www.masalatime.com/?p=993
--oTTo--

"Just walking up, I got tears in my eyes," Olson said. "Seeing this
 building today was more powerful than the first time we walked up in
 2005. Back then we knew we'd get turned away. Today I got a pit in
 my stomach."                                    --De Moines Register

One of my co-workers who is not a native English
speaker has adopted this sig line for his private
e-mail:
    I'm a great believer in luck, and I find

How do you pronounce coif in Order of the Coif?

Another "epicentre".
Massey University, New Zealand has an EpiCentre:
http://epicentre.massey.ac.nz/Information/AbouttheEpiCentre/tabid/235/Default.aspx
   The Massey University EpiCentre within the Institute of Veterinary,

It came as no surprise at all to me
When everyone was baffled by the case:
Who knew what happened to the chimpanzee?
Security was lax, we all agree;

Any other demics besides pandemic and epidemic?

I find "so happy was I" and "so happy I was" in equal proportions at
Google Books.
Thus, when would one use then "so happy was I?"
It seems to me more literary, but perhaps there are other things

Is the inversion in:
"So exultant _was I_"
mandatory only in literary contexts?
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Couldn't get an idea/image of those "remarkably pliant toes:"
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... making me thing, incongruously, of those erotic prints of the
Japanese eighteenth century in which puffy, porcelain-faced matrons

I don't believe it!
I googled "random hedgehog" and got 396 hits.
Including a YouTube video.

There was a thread recently when someone asked about the meaning of
"the hub".  I forget the context.
Tonight I was watching a television show - "The Unusuals" - about NYC
cops.  One detective tells another "I called the hub tonight, and

Is "where" for "when" dialect here?
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Does he notice those brassy beams of sunlight falling trough the leaded
panes of the bay window, the desiccated bunch of sea-blue and tenderly

This must be some social connotation, made only in the UK, isn't it,
between a (general) medical practitioner and a Doctor (with the latter
seemingly reserved for surgeons and other specialist doctors,) or am I
wrong?