Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2009

Does OED have "infloration?"
Can't find it in the NSOD and the M-W U, nor anywhere else.
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Thanks.

A local San Francisco radio talkshow host used the phrase "celebrating the
death of Senator Ted Kennedy," meaning to commemorate.  
A Usenet poster suggests that he should have said, "celebrating the life..."
instead and that "celebrating the death" was downright wrong.  

I'd have expected to see
"I haven't known about this"
as this is BrE, and in BrE I think I know that the perfect present is
more favored re situations leading to the present time (anyway, more

Do you feel a difference between:
1). Is that not true?
2). Is not that true?
I feel some stress in 1 on "that" being the point, the 2nd being more

I've got this slang word:
alum, the n. [late 19C] (US) the ideal, exactly what one desires. ..
not sure if it fits here.
Also, how about "cheesparing sods?"

Does either of:
1). It is a matter of you saying
2). It is a matter of your saying
work here? I think I know that the 2nd, if acceptable, would be more

I can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for CMS 15. Should I
capitalize the names of methods or models? For example: the Bull’s Eye
Model for Affective Development and the Torrance Tests of Creative
Thinking.

In March this year we had a discussion about the uses of "porch" in AmE
and BrE:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/822a8aad
a3b3630e/ba424d683b26e219#ba424d683b26e219
or http://tinyurl.com/lddg93

I should be obliged if someone will confirm how the word *Verde*, as in Cape
Verde Islands, should be pronounced.
Thanks.
David.

The "emerged," does it relate here to:
- showing up surprisingly in the modest neighbourghood?
- getting into the way of the traffic? (I see this as less probable,
but ...)

I'm wondering when, if ever, the use of the word "past" as a
postposition (following a noun) is acceptable.
Here is the sentence:
"Interwoven with these historical currents lies also the philosophical

I just heard the expression, "To whom much is given much is expected",
during the Ted Kennedy service tonight, but it seems to me it's not
quite grammatical.
Shouldn't it be something like, "From him to whom much is given much

This is a transcript of a talk on NPR:
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He joins us from recording studios at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Father James, thanks very much for being with us again.

"There is all this greatness around me, but it stops at my skin"
Is that sentence correct? Or should it be "there are"?

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