ABOUT-WORDS-L Archives: January 2003
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- Politesse
- Gen--X, Gen-Next
- Greetings
- Desiderata (Re: Greetings)
- That old (exclamatory) paranoia
- Military-minded despite themselves
- Tactic(s)
- pronunciation shift?
- Sibilance (Re: pronunciation shift?)
- Silbador, silbadores
- Postcard stories and short-shorts
- Potted Powerpoint
- Fw: ***English Language
- "holiday season"
- Timely, & co.
- "unorthodox entrepreneur"
- Re: "unorthodox entrepreneur"
- The Chinglish language is banned
- Mandarin mandarins (Re: The Chinglish language is banned)
- Bling was banned too... (Re: The Chinglish language is banned)
- Resnik Medal
- Oxymorons
- Storks
- a new (to me) word
- Elephants
- More elephants
- Vancouver
- Vancouver answer
- Noisy juvenilia
- False iconography
- Repeater's cramp
- Biting one's tongue
- Re: Biting one's tongue
- sugar
- Re: well
- Re: caramel
- Ask Oxford
- Big fat definitive, slim indefinitive
- Definitional faux pas
- Fw: messaging
- brouhaha
- Folk wised up (Re: brouhaha)
- Placeman
- Chinglish, Spanglish, English
- Re: @#&*#$
- @#&*#$
- Re: @#&*#$
- Bitches and bastards
- Bonnevie, Maria
- Billy Bonney
- Borodin bearded; Bezborodko beardless among beards.
- Name me an oath, b'gosh
- Ink caustic, and old.
- Goldwyn on 'caustic'
- UP OR DOWN
- Adverbs and variations (re: up/down)
- mamzer, bitch
- Prats, cunts, male bitches, pricks
- Re: Re: @#&*#$
- Your Highness
- Non-word sounds with meaning
- a change of pace
- Asbury, Borges
- Liberally conservatiive in Canada; small-l, small-c, & co
- Nature dead
- Semantically Mamet
- Semantics is sometimes relevant...
- Form as meaning
- Non-lexical utterances, like mmm, for example; and hmm, eek, ho HO- Ho Chi Minh, sh, shush, yikes, & co
- parrot-noises
- Duckspeak (Re: parrot-noises)
- Barstard
- New for new's sake
- Rocky words
- Theridiidae (Re: Rocky words)
- Re: [Rocky words]
- punctuate
- Re: More rocks
- Hobo
- RE HOBO
- Theridion saxatile (Re: Theridiidae (Re: Rocky words))
- Theridion sisyphum, Sisyphus -- pushers of rock, dung, & co.
- Osprey: bird of prey, bone-breaking Ossifrage, & Lammergeier
- AMERICANISMS?
- Gryphon the imagination, ther-, panther-fanciers...
- Treacle a beastly antidote
- Reversals
- -VER-; Inversion (Re: Reversals)
- collective nouns
- to vet
- vet
- ravens
- exaltation of larks
- 'The Lark Ascending' (Re: exaltation of larks)
- Vipers -- knotted, generated
- 'Volare nel blu'
- Name it, file it.
- Maiuetic midwifery
- Word Scholars
- Hard work
- Percentage
- COPY CAT
- The many manglers of the English language.
- cliches
- Cliche, Goldwyn on (re: cliches)
- Interesting word usage - headlines!
- Bathing-Towel (Re: Interesting word usage - headlines!)
- Just Checking
- Batten-1, Batten-2
- Pounding banality
- metamorphosis
- ODE TO UNGRAMMATICAL
- The Beeb agreed the omission (Re: metamorphosis)
- Sonnet in praise of grammar "cops"
- Archaic smile
- Thoughts on How Did We Survive?
- Oops
- How did we survive?
- word play
- word choices