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Let’s keep political jokes out of GQ. No warning issued.
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The latter, I think. Or, more nuancedly, they are of the same root and, if they converged, they probably converged from near-similar derivations of the same root. But I think it more likely that they began as forking paths within a single word. The way the Semitic consonantal root system functions in Arabic, each root begets a whole clan of related words, thanks to the efficient and regular system of deriving words from the roots.
I’m old school and “Sick” used to have a different meaning. :rolleyes:
The NY Times has used “Ms.” for a couple decades now. They had a page 2 column on the subject within the last week or two. (The page 2 column is for Times history.) I would not use a period since it is not an abbreviation of anything AFAiK, but I just checked and they do.
When the NY Times decided to use Ms, Gloria Steinman quipped: I’ll no longer be referred to as Miss Steinman of Ms. Magazine.
K’plah.
In French, apprendre can mean either ‘learn’ or ‘teach’
The ambulance takes people to hospital, but if you can walk ( ambulatory) you are expected to take yourself.
could, as in “I could care less”. thats due to the expression being corrupted, but the negative part (missing in the corrupt version) has to belong to “could”… so the could is a negative not a positive.
She’s awful pretty.
Yeah, but her husband is pretty awful.
The verbs to best and to worst both mean exactly the same thing,
He bested him in the fight.
He worsted him in the fight.
In both cases he beat him in the fight.
As opposed to “he wursted him in the fight”.