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Created | Updated Jul 24, 2002
Indexed so far: Postings 4001 - 4400
Definitions and Derivations
- akimbo
4096-4098 - boot: "a good swimmer, as well as a good diver to boot"
4364-4366 - conk, conked out
4077-4083 - dollar
4269 - Essex girl
4342-4344 - faucet
4085-4086 - foss
4041-4044 - gall
4302,
4307-4308 - happen (coll. vagueness)
4378 - mark, up to the mark
4061 - penguin
4048-4053 - scratch, up to scratch
4061 - tap
4085-4086 - tosser
4225-4228 - triple Hectate
4229-4230 - ventriloquist
4001,
4012-4017
What's the word for?
Usage
What's the correct/best usage of the word?
- abroad
4141 - ain't
4367-4379,
4388,
4399-4400 - -ant or -ent
4019 - beer or beers
4294-4299 - cave or pothole
4007 - head teacher or principal
4347-4348,
4357-4358,
4361-4364,
- interest, disinterested, uninteresed
4166-4172 - jab or jag
4035 - minster
4041-4042 - one of the only
4299,
4309,
4319-4327 - pants, underpants or trousers
4085-4086 - plurality: a group of people is/are
4111-4117,
4124,
4130-4132,
4155 - plurals: measures
4232-4268 - poke
4023-4039 - wellingtons or gumboots
4008-4011 - which or that
4136-4040,
4153-4154,
4162
Miscellaneous
- compound adjectives/nouns
4238-4268 - grammar checker
4136,
4145-4151,
4158,
4270-4278 - imperial measurements
4002-4009 - misspellings
4018-4019,
4037 - persons - 1st, 2nd, 3rd (I, you, they, etc)
4367-4371 - pronunciation: changes over time
4279-4280 - quoting text with amendments
4300,
4305-4306 - semicolons
4190-4191 - split infintives
4108-4110,
4119-4122,
4152,
4163-4165,
4168,
4173-4176 - text messaging
4056-4060,
4067-4078 - thee, thou, etc
4317-4318,
4328-4338 - toponyms
4104-4107 - verbs: irregular made regular
4280
Off Topic
- Green Man
4092-4095 - hokey-cokey/pokey
4028 - Joseph Pujol, aka 'Le petomane'
4012-4015 - lucidity in writing or speaking
4198-4221 - Oracle at Delphi
4002,
4014-4016 - Plutarch
4064-4065 - reasons why English is hard to learn
4181 - Sheila-na-gigs
4096-4098