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- Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:28 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Νίκη
- Replies: 21
- Views: 55863
Lots of young Swedes pronounce the shoe label [naik]. In Brazil too. Even [náiki], since it's not very easy for us to finish a word in a consonant (except m/n, s/z/x, r and l [pronounced as a w, as a matter of fact]). We're like the Italians (and the Japanese), we tend to add a vowel where none exi...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:11 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: oscitation, oscitancy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5735
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: blenorrhagia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 43688
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:03 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: osphresis
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12040
osphresis
Brazilian dude
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:55 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DEHISCENT
- Replies: 15
- Views: 29946
- Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:49 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: MOUE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8842
- Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:42 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: FURLOUGH
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5540
- Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:36 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: carminative
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9275
carminative
: An agent that prevents or relieves flatulence (gas in the gastrointestinal tract) and, in infants, may help in the treatment of colic. The origin of the word "carminative" is particularly curious. It was borrowed from the French carminatif (masc.), carminative (fem.). Virtually all Engl...
- Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Grandparents
- Replies: 75
- Views: 347325
- Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:24 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Free e-books
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8856
Free e-books
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Brazilian dude
Brazilian dude
- Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:05 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Peevish about how people speak the language?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6830
The more importantly lady has no clue what a sentence adverb is. The once guy doesn't know that once is also a conjunction meaning roughly as soon as , as can be attested in any dictionary. The eager/anxious woman doesn't know that anxious has covered many of the meanings ascribed to eager since the...
- Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Grandparents
- Replies: 75
- Views: 347325
- Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:37 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: harlequin
- Replies: 30
- Views: 50284
- Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:44 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: harlequin
- Replies: 30
- Views: 50284
- Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:43 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: OSCULATE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8455