Boo to OED being on the letter P!
Damnit.P is, like, so the worst letter for the OED to be revising. There will be very little etymological information in the entries, for essentially no pure English words start with the letter P. Of...
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Quote:You don't seem to know the meaning of 'cognate'. Is there no beginning to your knowledge?I have no clue what you mean. Are you claiming that Latin and Greek are not languages cognate to old...
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Maybe the OED could produce a special edition for those of a similar mindset to your own, one that leaves out all the 'boring bits', words which are, so to speak, etymologically-challenged.They could...
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If one assigns "value" to English words on a sliding scale, according to where they come from, there may be some significance to this discussion. As far as I can make out, the OP finds what he/she...
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Yes, those words of "pure English" are indeed borrowed from another language. It's just that it was so long ago and before any written records of European languages that we just don't know what...
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I'm surprised our resident Pythonologist hasn't mentioned this one:The Bookshop SketchNo gannets, please.
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junk554, you have a very minor but interesting point about the English language which the OED expresses more intelligibly thus:In Proto-Germanic p represents an Indo-European b; however, initial b is...
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>edited again to soften language.A little talcum is always walcome.
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language hat, there's no need to lay into other people. We're here to discuss words, not to humiliate those who try. Yes, "Pure English" is a goofy idea, but there's no need to rub it in. junk554 is...
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junk554 is clearly intelligent, but also clearly stubborn, opinionated, and unwilling to listen to others. I'm very patient with those who are eager to learn; not so much with those who are eager to...
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Thank you, oh thank you, Happydog, I shall dream tonight of Ethel the Aardvark.............
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Quote:Yes, those words of "pure English" are indeed borrowed from another language. It's just that it was so long ago and before any written records of European languages that we just don't know what...
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Forget the OED for now. What you want to do is pester Anatoly Liberman to finish the etymological dictionary he's been working on for 17 years.
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www.folwell.umn.edu/gsd/people/liberman.htmlInteresting. I wonder if it will be as detailed as the OED3 etymologically.
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Should be rather more so; that's its point. The OED is primarily a historical dictionary rather than an etymological dictionary, although it's about the best thing currently available in English in...
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"But all words eventually come from some other language "Is there a more perilous word than "all"? :-)Some words started in English, we can be fairly sure.EDIT: corrected spellingBTW, this is the...
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Quote:Is there a more perilous word than "all"? :-)Some words started in English, we can be fairly sure.I agree. DaveWilton has made some odd comments which clearly veer from what is...
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Your case was never vaild, so how could you rest it? All I've seen you do is make false and erroneous accusations, giving no citations or proof of any kind to support them (obviously because they're...
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