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Miscellany
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Re: "Reasonable Doubt"
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tsuwm
27 minutes 24 seconds ago
I recently read A Trial by Jury, by D. Graham Burnett (which I can't totally recommend). I found this to be revealing:
The judge explained the standard of proof. The state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Did we hear that? Th
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Beheading words
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Re: Indian sign
by
olly
Yesterday at 10:56 PM
"Nicky's got the Indian sign on Nat".
I agree with Twosleepy and Javan8.
In wwh's context it would mean "Nicky is more dominant over Nat".
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Is that the Aum sign Latishya?
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Q&A about words
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Re: diabolical liberty
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morphememedley
Yesterday at 10:52 PM
I wasn't sure that I'd ever heard or read carnal license, but maybe I had; an exact wording Google search fetched 182 results. Might diabolical liberty and carnal license be alike in meaning, sometimes anyway?
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Miscellany
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Weekly Themes
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Re: Nouns as Verbs
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Word Lady
Yesterday at 04:32 PM
Don't you think that a modicum of verbification has added richness to our language? I think what people object to are today's countless "verbifications of the moment". I'm talking about the tendency to turn a noun into a verb in order to sound a) i
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Q&A about words
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Re: capitalize?
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 03:39 PM
Welcome olive: I presume you mean that "6 x 6 Aluminum" starts the sentence. Ordinarily however, we don't start sentences with a digit. Sometimes we spell it out, "Four-by-fours support the frame," or rewrite: Aluminum 6 x 6 Wonder Sheets covered
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Q&A about words
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Seek word
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dalehileman
Yesterday at 12:44 PM
I know it as well as my own name, which at my advanced age I'm also not sure of sometimes. It means fostering or provoking further inquiry or research and possibly it's derived from some fellow of historical significance
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Q&A about words
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Re: Widow's Peak
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BranShea
Yesterday at 05:37 AM
That's one I hadn't heard yet!
When we say someone has 'a good head ' we mean he has a good brain. In that sense your saying could be associated with the also Anon. one -- 'on brains no hair will grow '.
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