However, most English-speakers don't recognize the two German morphemes (the old-fashioned spelling of modern ) and , but instead see and the familiar noun , thus mishyphenate the name as "Roths- child" and mispronounce it as

A line-end hyphen in David Kertzer's book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (an excellent history of ... Should the hyphen go there or between the "h" and the "s", thus: Roth-schild? I might have written the latter. The

I think you are wrong about "me and my wife ... stands by itself as the subject of a finite predicate. I keep reading this "people are applying rules as they speak" stuff. My opinion is that no one thinks about ... thing when they

In our class on the future of the humanities (at ... only other genderless, singular, person-related English pronoun: the interrogative "who." Actually, it's CLOSEST to "you". Once again, it sounds too much like

In our class on the future of the humanities (at Emory) we are using "hu," a clipping from "human," as ... As a sound pattern, "hu" is the closest to the only other genderless, singular, person-related English

To give an example that's at least related, Padraig recently ... is often seen as sexism or a relic of sexism. But then why do some women, avowed feminists, insist in being called "chairwoman", "policewoman", etc.? It is

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford

From another group: I saw Arnold's announcement on Leno last ... Kennedys feel about having a 'Black Plowman' in the family?" Well, 'schwarz' is German for black and my little Collins German Dic says 'Egge' is a