Came across this in a novel: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. I thought it must be a typo, but I took a look. It’s the way it’s always written. The lower-case ‘n’ even appearing in the stylized logo, which unfortunately doesn’t reproduce here. You may well think I often remark on utter...

Thanks much for the article.
And I do believe ‘ellipsis’ serves perfectly. Apparently, I was mistaken, always associating the word the the familiar three or four dots.

Well, the main point was not the usage, but looking for a word for it.

In case you’re not familiar with this:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/category/language/

Natch! The line is a spoken interpolation in There Must Be Someone for Me , from Mexican Hayride . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFO8OXriwE Actually, the line is not in the published lyrics, so we can’t give credit without a bit of reservation. Our chanteuse is the divina June Havoc, sister of Gy...

It was a worthy idea. That’s something of value nearly equal to a correct surmise.

Mais, c’est comme ça.

As Cole Porter had it, ‘La vie, la vie . . . you’d be dead without it!’

That spelling is entirely reasonable, yet it’s not present as an alternative in the OED, nor used in any of the citations.

However, I see a few words with the sequence at issue:
obliquus
ventriloquus (obsolete)
inaniloquution (also obsolete, unfortunately).

All the best.

I believe I’ve heard that the name Kaitlin (Kate-lin) is just a misunderstanding of the way Kathleen is spelled in Ireland.

Quae scio?

Many verb-to-noun pairs in English exhibit this peculiarity: survey (survey : a survey), reject (reject : a reject), and rewrite (rewrite : a re-write) among others. I’ve written about this here, advancing the idea that the latter-syllable stress for verbs is favored because it sounds more dynamic....

Thanks. I might also have noted that despite being colloquial and rare, the fact that it’s not a synonym or variant spelling of squish or squash adds a bit to its bona fides.

And I’ve always thought Quasimodo was just a name. (Actually, no need to capitalize it now.) Didn’t even have a hunch! Might as well loose the felis domesticus from the sack: it’s sqush , at least in the OED, earliest citation in Huckleberry Finn . Probably coined therein, but a few other usages not...

The times being what they are, for the most part, I’d say you’re well-situated. I could start a new post about this wee discovery, but no one but you would take any notice anyway, so . . . . . . didja know there’s an entry in the OED (admittedly ‘U.S. colloquial and dialect. rare.’) with ‘qu’ not fo...

According to the OED, meaning 2 is obsolete.

Interesting that hypobole, which is a word, is not an antonym.

Ye gods and goddesses! We have the makin’s of a horse race!

The wik has it as a singular flat out.
Etymonline’s entry suggests cannola is Italian only
(and not for the pastry).
And the OED admits solely of the plural.

I’m tellin’ granma!