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Is 'babble' related to 'Tower of Babel'?

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by Archived Topic » Sat Nov 13, 2004 3:39 pm

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Perdaughter

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keep on keeping on

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by incarnatus est » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:46 pm

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Raip?

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by trolley » Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:03 pm

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Cackalacky and derivatives

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by PauladePlume » Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:34 pm

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stochastic terrorism

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by Ken Greenwald » Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:56 pm

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solace and consolation

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by gdwdwrkr » Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:15 am

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Small hinges swing big doors

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by PauladePlume » Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:01 am
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the royal 'we' / the royal 'you'?

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by Archived Topic » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:08 pm

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Overton window

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:41 pm

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Finnegans Wake and beesknees

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by gdwdwrkr » Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:28 pm

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prelapsarian

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:51 pm

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Damascene conversion

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by Ken Greenwald » Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:41 pm

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piece of ass

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by Archived Topic » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:01 am

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Up in arms

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by trolley » Fri Jun 28, 2019 7:05 pm

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bijou / bijou strongman

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by Ken Greenwald » Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:46 pm

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Whitear

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by Phil White » Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:49 pm

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recuse

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by tony h » Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:19 pm

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Gee Gee

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by Bobinwales » Sun May 19, 2019 11:39 pm

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heterodox

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by Ken Greenwald » Fri May 10, 2019 7:11 pm

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Gossip

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by Bobinwales » Tue May 07, 2019 9:26 pm

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legitimate (the verb)

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by Ken Greenwald » Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:36 pm

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remove (the noun)

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by Ken Greenwald » Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:40 pm

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Daylight Robbery

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by Bobinwales » Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:01 pm

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The Smallest Room

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by Bobinwales » Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:28 am

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Outdated Expressions?

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by Ken Greenwald » Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:06 pm

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taxi dancer

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by Ken Greenwald » Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:35 am

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Anglo Saxon and Norse in the Danelaw

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by tony h » Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:01 pm

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screwsman vs screwman

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by tony h » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:49 am

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sommelier

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:24 pm

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What do Americans mean by Pantomime

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by tony h » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:05 pm

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unicorn

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:12 am

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hymeneal

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by Ken Greenwald » Tue Feb 19, 2019 11:04 pm

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Making one's nut

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by Shelley » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:13 pm

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Deadline

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by tony h » Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:33 am

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101

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by tony h » Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:08 pm

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Graupel

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by trolley » Sat Feb 23, 2019 7:34 pm

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Why a "lid"

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by incarnatus est » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:04 am
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laundromat

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by Archived Topic » Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:54 pm

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copacetic / copasetic / copesetic

Last post by RabbiR.Karpov,Ph.D. « Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:21 am
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by Archived Topic » Mon Sep 20, 2004 6:15 pm

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Clients and Customers

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by tony h » Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:37 pm

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Scrumping

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by Phil White » Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:23 pm

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elegiac

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by Ken Greenwald » Fri Feb 01, 2019 9:08 pm

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Words coined by Thomas Hardy

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by tracymar » Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:35 am

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Billowous

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by trolley » Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:38 pm

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clickbait

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:47 pm

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Hob

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by trolley » Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:14 pm
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rabble-rouser

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by Ankh151 » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:10 pm

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2018 Word of the Year

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by Ken Greenwald » Tue Dec 18, 2018 4:39 am

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wrong-foot

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by Ken Greenwald » Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:58 pm

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