http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishVocabularyIdiom-Questions/Forum29.htmHelp with defining words and idioms, and new words and idioms that you've learntenXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296348Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:296348Wilder0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296348http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-296348.xmlThanks for the welcome! I must say this forum was a real find for me - I'm worryingly obsessed with language and grammar and now I have an outlet! (If you just heard a massive sigh winging its way across the Atlantic, it was all my friends breathing a sigh of relief!)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296339Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:296339Grammar Geek1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296339http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-296339.xmlAwesome! (She says, in her best teenager style.) It's always great when a "lurker" registers. Welcome to the forum!http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296337Sat, 23 May 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:296337Wilder2http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#296337http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-296337.xmlProfuse apologies for the lack of referencing. I had intended to (hence the quotation marks), but it must have slipped my mind. From a no longer so anonymous Wilderhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#294147Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:294147Philip3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#294147http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-294147.xmlGrammar Geek wrote: However, please quote your source next time you copy and paste from Wikipedia. Touché!http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#294025Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:294025Grammar Geek4http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/2/dwmjq/Post.htm#294025http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-294025.xmlOne should never by suprised when I have an r that doesn't belong or forget one that does. However, please quote your source next time you copy and paste from Wikipedia.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293976Sat, 23 May 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293976Anonymous5http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293976http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293976.xmlDo you mean "pejorative" instead of perjorative"? "It is so frequently misspelled as perjorative that the Oxford English Dictionary website contains a FAQ entry about this misspelling." Sorry for being pedantic (or should that be perdantic?!)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293943Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293943J Lewis6http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293943http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293943.xmlYes, diminutive, definitely. I can't think of a pejorative suffix in English. I don't know if Quisling's name was derived from a diminutive of something. I had a schoolteacher called Gosling! BTW I think darling probably is a diminutive, derived from dear-ling. Maybe someone can look up the etymology.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293629Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293629Philip7http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293629http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293629.xmlGrammar Geek wrote: Do you mean "diminutive" instead of "perjorative"? Thank you, GG!http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293589Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293589Grammar Geek8http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293589http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293589.xmlDo you mean "diminutive" instead of "perjorative"?http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293586Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293586BMO9http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293586http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293586.xmlSure. Underling, duckling, princeling, yearling, gosling, darkling, godling. Just go to www.onelook.com and enter -ling. Darling = dear + ling.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293564Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293564Marius Hancu10http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293564http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293564.xmlIt's definitely pejorative to call someone a "Q/quis ling ": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling but ling isn't a quite a suffix there, or perhaps it is in Norway.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293550Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293550Clive11http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293550http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293550.xmlHi, Perhaps a princeling ? Or, Froda was a halfling . In my lexicon, it's pejorative to call someone a ding-a-ling . Best wishes, Clive.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293515Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293515Philip12http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htm#293515http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293515.xmlBMO wrote: Suffix -ling denotes pejorative. How can it be in Darling? Thanks. "ling" is not a suffix, here. The word is 'darling'. Can you give me some examples of 'ling = pejorative"? I'm not aware of that suffix.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htmMon, 23 Mar 2009 05:38:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:293504BMO13http://www.englishforums.com/English/Darling/dwmjq/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments29-293504.xmlSuffix -ling denotes pejorative. How can it be in Darling? Thanks.