Excellent example, Larry!

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I prefer Glottocide for some reason, but what would the grrek root for "kill" be? Do we have that active Greek root in English?

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I got them all right off! Especially easy after the fifth letter came up!

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I think that bnjtokyo has it right! And, yes, anders, it is strange how we don't notice things in language and then when we do it is everywhere. I had the same experience with the phrase "MY BAD" which I still don't like, but since it was drawn to my attention, it seems to pop up everywher...

Furlough, often furlong in the orient, means many things! "After the capture of that enemy combatant, I was given a furlough in Tokyo." "I wish my furlong was that long!" "I would furlough with you, but......" "A forlough is something given a military man who has d...

They are not true hibernators, but something like bears and squirrels, they will curl up for weeks at a time if it is too cold. They will lose almost half of their weight by the end of hibernation. When it gets really cold [below 25 degrees Fahrenheit], the raccoon will go to its den to sleep. Dens ...

I looked, but I couldn't find a sure reference. There was some stuff about the difference between the letter 'san' and the letter 'sigma' which appeared or was joked about in the plays
"Banqueteers" and "Horses" but nothing definite about the plight of sigma.

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Tim: I do think that it is most ironic that "liberals" comprise, by far, the largest percentage of conservationists, whereas "conservatives", by far, seem to agree that nature merely provides what we want to consume. And most evangelical Christians, a pivotal conservative group f...

gailr: Anthropomorphization does serve one useful function: reinforcing "humane" behavior. I do not see the need to anthropomorphize animals in order to reinforce humane behavior. Animals should be treated humanely just because they are animals, not because we see ourselves in them. Certai...

Note that neither political ideology nor income is responsible for much of the charitable differences between secular and religious people. For example, religious liberals are 19 points more likely than secular liberals to give to charity, while religious conservatives are 28 points more likely tha...

n the classical or hellenic period Greek existed in several major dialects, each of which has its own significance for the history of the language, but the most influential of these would ultimately prove to be the one spoken in Athens, called Attic. Well within the hellenic period, though, Attic a...

Certainly I am not going to tell anyone that animals do not have emotions and do not express emotions, even beyond and behind the expected emotive projection of pet-owners and field biologists, what I am saying is that speech (including cursing) and the conceptual thought entailed by such is somethi...

Thanks, Degnan! I have heard this 'ch'-'j' variation before 'r'. And there are many sites which seem to not even having a listing for Connecticut at all. Bah. I declare myself to be free of any accent whatsoever. It's the rest of you who speak odd. Even those of you who actually pronounce "tree...

I used to jokingly call my 4 month sailboat trip "thalassic therapy." I had no idea there was really a thalassotherapy!

That is cool! I hope pelagic isn't jealous!

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Vow! What a good site, BD! Finally forcing me to learn all the grammatical term for German in German.

Really a good find! Thanks for sharing! I've got it book marked!

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