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Marvin A. wrote:>> Now, said with a Southern French accent, it becomes , it should be less confusing for you. The French ‘o’ in ‘Côte’ isn’t a diphthong – it rhymes with ‘caught’ in RP. The Provençals, however, say it as ‘cot’ in RP.

Anonymous wrote:Actually, the term is 'tea totaller' and it means people who NEVER drink alcohol of any kind, beer, wine, anything with alcohol in it... therefore the word implies they only drank tea. ORIGIN emphatic extension of TOTAL, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from...

More on obligate/oblige: According to this US source, they are synonyms only in the meaning 3b: ------- obligate Function:transitive verb Etymology:Latin obligatus, past participle of obligare to oblige -- more at OBLIGE 1 obsolete : BIND, FASTEN 2 a : to pledge as...

Not sure if just BrE or dialect: --------- skep 1 a : a coarse round farm basket b or skep·ful \-fl\ (1) : the quantity held by a skep (2) : any of various old units of capacity based on this quantity 2 : BEEHIVE; especially : a domed hive made of twisted...

What exactly is a British accent? Geordie? Glaswegian? Scouse? Cockney? Brummie? Northern? Southern? RP? Estuary? Welsh? Irish? According to an online BBC article from 2005: "Sean Connery's Scottish lilt is the nation's favourite accent, a survey of people for a BBC project suggests. Sir...

The following is from the Online Etymology Dictionary.I 12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego, Gk. ego, Rus. ja). Reduced to...

Clive wrote:I've never seen 'succour' spelled as 'succor', so it looks very odd to me. I guess it's just another case of American vs. British spelling? Exactly. ------------ Main Entry:1suc·cor Function:noun Inflected Form(s):-s Usage:see -or Etymology:Middle English...