Search found 15 matches
- Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:09 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: BEVY
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5822
- Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TROTH
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27336
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:28 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: What's wrong with "Suddenly"?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 63168
- Fri May 27, 2005 10:52 am
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Know why "kn" is used where "n" would su
- Replies: 16
- Views: 78787
Hi Eric, Of course English words are not symbols, and it is ordinarily possible to guess the pronunciation of a word from its spelling through a process of comparison and analogy. This is of course not the case in Chinese, where every symbol (usually) has to be learned individually In reality, what ...
- Thu May 26, 2005 4:52 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: What's wrong with "Suddenly"?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 63168
I once started a book by Balzac that spent a whole chapter getting from the mountains surrounding the town to the doorknob. I put the book down and never opened it again, nor did I ever read anything by Balzac after that. But I gather that kind of stuff was frequent in the 19th C. I suppose we have ...
- Thu May 26, 2005 4:43 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Know why "kn" is used where "n" would su
- Replies: 16
- Views: 78787
- Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:05 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: History of Grammar
- Replies: 14
- Views: 30713
Hi Phil, Grammar seems to get simpler over time. How did the earlier complex grammars come about from presumably the very simple grammars used with man's first grunts? The old English grammars followed the pattern of Latin grammars. They had conjugations and spoke of subjunctives. They tried to fit ...
- Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:55 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Different from, Different than,
- Replies: 11
- Views: 32627
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:03 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Know why "kn" is used where "n" would su
- Replies: 16
- Views: 78787
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:04 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Dilemma/dilemna
- Replies: 36
- Views: 196752
Dilemma/dilemna
As a result of a remark made by someone on another forum, I did a search on dilemma vs. dilemna and was surprised to discover how many people were actually TAUGHT to spell d-i-l-e-m-n-a. Can anyone throw light on the origina of this tenured error?
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- Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:08 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: I don't want to look stupid, but irregardless I want to know
- Replies: 135
- Views: 2043097
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:59 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Some thing WICKED this way comes!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 225400
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:07 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: "Question Tags" they are important, aren't they?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 111017
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:00 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: What is the correct usage of "affect" & "
- Replies: 12
- Views: 34428
- Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:34 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TROGLODYTE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 32958