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According to a definition that I prefer*, a word is a homograph of another word if the two are spelled the same and have different etyma, but may be pronounced...
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by Ben Zimmer
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I quote part of a recent AP news article: According to one source, Griffin came under criticism for spending too much time on shots with his cinematographer...
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by Maria Conlon
5 yr 101 days ago
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Saturday 28th August, Angel and Greyhound (possibly not the best pub in Oxford but parking's convenient and buses stop outside). Email me for further...
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by Dr Robin Bignall
5 yr 101 days ago
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I have just come across a wonderful program which is helping make my amateur articles look really professional. It goes by the name of http://www.whitesmoke...
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Is there an interface that isn't interactive? Is 'interactive' a meaningful word?
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by Bob Cunningham
5 yr 101 days ago
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by Mike Lyle
5 yr 101 days ago
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"New CD available instore next week." "For more information, ask instore." "Other components instore." So common in Australian...
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by JohnJ
5 yr 101 days ago
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I was at Nipsey Russell's house with Brett Schundler, Richard Dawson, and Truman Capote...Nipsey asked me what I liked best about my life, so I told...
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by Charles Riggs
5 yr 101 days ago
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Is there such thing as the word "coals"? I ask because I ran accross this idiom, "carrying coals to Newcastle". I've believed that...
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by Charles Riggs
5 yr 101 days ago
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Reading the second most recent download of AUE posts I received, I made the following, purely objective of course, observations: Izzy: 2 interesting posts...
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by Charles Riggs
5 yr 101 days ago
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Hi, In proofing revises I came across this sentence: "Yes, the test is hard but, you are no slouch." The second comma (after "but"...
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by Richard Bollard
5 yr 102 days ago
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I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 again late last night (perhaps the most powerful antiwar work of art since Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Picasso's Guernica...
By Franklin Cacciutto
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by The Grammer Genious
5 yr 102 days ago
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My wife and son and I'll be going on a 3-day vacation to Penghu, a resort island off the wouthwest coast of Taiwan. No computers, no work. Only sunshine...
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by CyberCypher
5 yr 102 days ago
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I am an Indian, and English is my second language. Inspite of tossing a few odd ones every now and then in my writing as well as in speech, I must admit...
By Sathyaish
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by Dylan Nicholson
5 yr 102 days ago
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Hello, which sentence is right? viewable with any standard compliant browser or viewable with any standards compliant browser or viewable with any standards...
By Michael Roessner
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by Ian Noble
5 yr 102 days ago
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How do I explain to Roger what he is missing? He seems fit enough, he's tall and good looking, wants a woman but never has had one. When I accosted...
By Charles Riggs
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by DE781
5 yr 102 days ago
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As I chucked away a bottle now empty of the Wychwood Brewery's rather nondescript Goliath Ale, it struck me what a good image this failed villain seems...
By Mike Lyle
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by Charles Riggs
5 yr 102 days ago
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Friday the 13th came on Friday this month (as Pogo would say). Is the probability of that happening exactly one seventh, or is it more complicated than...
By Isador Wuzzaportle
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by John Dawkins
5 yr 102 days ago
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Is it coming? Or did I miss it? I haven't seen any announcements.
By Peter Morris
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by Edward
5 yr 102 days ago
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From time to time I, against my better judgment, read Parade magazine. (This is a national publication distributed as a supplement in the Sunday editions...
By Richard R. Hershberger
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by Peter Moylan
5 yr 102 days ago
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In today's Wall Street Journal is a review of The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey. The reviewer, Mark Miller, approvingly describes the book as "learned...
By Richard R. Hershberger
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by Peter Moylan
5 yr 102 days ago
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In the following sentence, In American English which one would be better? " The (venues/locales) for the Festival this year will be Cemal Resit Rey...
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Hello, Which of the two following salutations is more formal: "Yours truly" or "Regards"?? thanks
By Julie
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by Jonathan Jones
5 yr 103 days ago
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Some views on Education and timing of Introducing English in Schools Forwarded messages ( From: "sunil kumar" ( Subject: Re: Some views on Education...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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I was wondering if the grammarians here feel that the pronoun "they" creates a degree of ambiguity in the following sentences "Intellectual...
By Larry Johnson
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by Harvey Van Sickle
5 yr 103 days ago
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