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www.arrantpedantry.com
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| | | | | A correspondent named Jitendra Pant recently asked me to elaborate on the etymology of whole: Dear Jonathon, I am wondering why whole has a spelling beginning with 'w' and not just R... | |
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www.grammarphobia.com
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| | | | | The verb "indict" wasn't spelled or pronounced with a "c" when it first appeared in Middle English in the early 14th century. | |
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quuxplusone.github.io
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| | | | | Previously: "A poem all in dactylic noun substantives, part 1" (2025-08-28). Cervantes wrote satirically of a poet who had written- "that part of the history of King Arthur of England which Archbishop Turpin left unwritten, together with the history of the quest of the Holy Grail; and all in heroic verse, part in rhymes and part in blank verse; but entirely dactylically-I mean in dactylic noun substantives, without admitting any verb whatsoever." Over on Literature StackExchange, Clara Díaz Sánchez explains that in the late 16th and early 17th century, there was in fact a fad for poetry in which many lines ended in dactyls. | |
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ericposner.com
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| | | Antitrust's Labor Market Problem, ProMarket, November 8, 2021 The Rise of the Labor-Antitrust Movement, Competition Policy International, November 29, 2021 Antitrust and Labor Markets: A Reply to R... | ||
