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Ah, sorry JamesDSM50328, I didn't see your post. ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

If you liked that you might like to try making some fantastic contraptions ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Shurely, "if I were ..." ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

input your filenames on standard input with ls | file_nos.awk where file_nos.awk is #! /usr/bin/awk -f { if (match($1, /[0123456789]+/)) { print substr($1, RSTART, RLENGTH) } } to get 1 2 15 ========================================== abjure...

There's no vitriol on my part CC. I always have a laugh when I read your postings. Cheers ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

You are, of course, allowed to redefine English words in any way you wish. Heaven forfend that I should lay down the law or appeal to standards in this respect :-o ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

She didn't mean a "gathering" of printers, ESquared. She meant the way apostrophes are used is a convention amongst printers. It is a practice that printers use. The word convention is used to mean that most, possibly all, printers have adopted this practice. But it is not a law; just a...

Yes, but just after she's been ranting on about taking up arms against those who misuse apostrophes (e.g to pluralize abbreviations, as in CD's) she writes about apostrophes as a printer's convention (i.e. as though there was only one printer and it was his convention). Hoist by her own petard...

Life of Brian Conjugate the verb "to go", come on! ROMANES EUNT DOMUS ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

and, just to prove I'm paying attention oxymoron alert ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

init though ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

I prescribe the word "descriptivist" in any future references. descriptivists ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

I spot one error in this clause :-0 ========================================== abjure hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Alright then, I'll aks he ... Witch three errors spottest thee? ========================================== Promulgate sesquipedalianism!

But Fee ... people use language to communicate. They communicate so much more than merely the literal definition of the words in a mechanistic way. When people append "init" or "is it" tags they are not asking questions any more than "How do you do" is meant as a question. Use of specific...

Just ... can't ... stop ... myself OK look, as we all know the current English work "ask" is derived from Old English "ascian" ("axian/acsian" were both in use). "aks" comes from middle English and "ask" is modern English. "aks" was still widely used in England during the European/American...

Yes. From today you are officially no longer allowed to pedantically "correct" people and try to enforce the archaic meaning on them. Sorry. This must be an enormous loss. ========================================== Promulgate sesquipedalianism!

Parts of speech" is far and away the most commonly occuring phrase on the internet for these word descriptors. I have found no single word for them but other phrases are "word classes" or "lexical categories". I was interested to read this NYTimes article copied in The Association for Latin...

Thanks for pointing up that article Ken. I do enjoy getting riled up by poncey journalists but I was very pleased to read the nicely tuned condemnations in the comments. What does instrumentalisation mean? It's not in Wiktionary, Chambers (UK) or Merriam-Webster...