Gary Williams wrote on 28 Jul 2004: It's like "ice tea" and "teenage". They ought to be ... to update has turned these past-participial adjectives into nominal adjectives. Hmmm...I understand "ice tea" (the -d

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.

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

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