X-no-archive: yes Could someone be good enough to comment on the correct usage in English of the plurals of yiddish words which have no English equivalent. e.g. eruv and mezuzah, the plurals of which, viz. eruvin and mezuzot appear unusual in

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> I had long thought that there were other words missing. Consider the related construction with "will": "We think that we will do better to take the freeway." where "better" does not look like a verb. Maybe the

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Wouldn't "jocular" describe the remark and "jocose" the person making it? I don't see any difference in the dictionary definitions. I got my initial impression from my desk dictionary (I don't naturally use either

I'm confused, as they say on the West Coast. "Not ... that way, other than Willy Quine and people like that? Coop, for one! Vide supra, and all that. Not really. Coop was trying work some wordplay into the House of Lords. It seemed, at

The usage of "eloquence" in this context is square-peggish. Eloquence ... as eloquently as this." (Although I wouldn't say that) Comments? I've always made the same assumption (eloquence/eloquent). As someone who feels pure

Maybe the writer was thinking of "in the offing"? But M-W defines that as "the near or foreseeable future" so that doesn't fit, either. Is that all it gives? No, but you're not going to like the original meaning any

Maybe the writer was thinking of "in the offing"? But M-W defines that as "the near or foreseeable future" so that doesn't fit, either. Is that all it gives? My feeling for the word is that it denotes physical proximity,