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Yes, you are: "I am become death" is an archaic ... native to English or was borrowed from, for example, French. It's in Dutch, too, so my money would be on it being an old Germanic pattern. To have been borrowed ... verbs, actually,
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john lawler
6 yr 12 days ago
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Sounding out the word and tapping wouldn't work because I'm trying to make an AI chatbot that dosn't use an online dictionary. Instead the program goes through the sentence and looks for certain keywords such as am, were, do, not, ect... and
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Can anyone point out the gender of the word 'soldier' ? Was at any point in the history of the word any masculine gender explicitly associated with its meaning ? The etymology is at , even with a paragraph of "word history".
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jerry friedman
6 yr 23 days ago
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Hi.. I'm trying to put together a program for a friend of mine that will help her improve her general reading/ English skills. I am a former (elementary teacher..) but I've never dipped into adult ed. I am looking for help in putting together a
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Hi, i like to know aout the adding noun suffixes to word that end in silent e, what ever that is about the suffix, changing verbs or adj to nouns, agrement with verbs
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Or just wait a little and I'll tell you which ... with names like Wulfa and Wulfred. And one for wolves. I love the fact that Devon boasts not one but two "Woolfardisworthys". From "The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the
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donna richoux
6 yr 58 days ago
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Hi, If my child was marked down because she used a capital letter for words in a spelling test, I’d be angry with the teacher. When I went to school, my spelling exercises tested for spelling not style. However, if your child is a high school
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wumanfu
6 yr 64 days ago
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Being new to this group, I apologize if this question is not appropriate here. Would the best candidate for the spelling of the word describing the science, study or theory of the sport of Rugby be: Rugbiology Rugbeology Rugbyology Rugbology Are
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It is basically a nonsense word invented by putting latin prefixes and suffixes together. Actually, they're Greek roots. Please note that there are words describing phobias for such things as oxygen and circular objects, with no known cases of
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Original Message Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:35 AM Subject: "triskaidekaphobia" 1.) How is the word "triskaidekaphobia" pronounced? Could someone please give the IPA transcription? tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh 2.) Is
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master of all photosohp
6 yr 79 days ago
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