AnWulf
Joined: June 19, 2011
Number of comments posted: 562
Number of votes received: 159
Native English speaker. Conversant in German, Russian, Spanish, and Anglo-Saxon.
Ferþu Hal!
I have a pilot's license (SEL certificate); I'm a certified diver (NAUI); I've skydived and was qualified as a paratrooper in the Army (Airborne!); I was a soldier (MI, Armor, Engineer).
I worked for a corporation, was a law enforcement officer, and a business owner.
Bachelor's in Finance; minor in Economics Masters of Aeronautical Sciences
Browncoat
Now I'm writing my great American novel.
http://lupussolus.typad.com http://lupussolusluna.blogspot.com
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“What can I do besides complaining” sounds wrong to me but I...
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on: Pled versus pleaded
@JusticeJim ... True ... It's time for WW, Jayles, and I to ...
on: “Anglish”
Since the net is down at my house (I'm in town right now), I...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... You're always wondering about those Latinates in...
on: “Anglish”
You can also note "bendy" for flexible ... http://en.wiktio...
on: When did we start pluralizing prepositions?
The Oxford Dict. Online (OED) says this for backward(s): ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@WW "Every time one writes the -our ending in English, the...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@ww - "inkhorn-terms" as "agile, education, harass, scien...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@Jasper I don't think that I'v ever said to "get rid of" th...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@jayles ... Se móna acwanc ... The moon was a-quench'd (ecli...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@Spydervr495 ... Yes, that should be 'owing to' ... I don't ...
on: “Anglish”
For 'flexible, pliable', try "bendsome" ... http://en.wiktio...
on: Preferred forms
It should come as no surprize That a word like apprise Is ...
on: “Anglish”
Looks like we can keep 'huge' ... I alway thought it might h...
on: Reference, refer.
FWIW, reference as a verb has been written since at least 18...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles ... You might find this list a little handier, only ...
on: “Anglish”
Amber wasn't chosen as the root for electricity for its colo...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Here's another one for your etym skills. Here...
on: “Anglish”
Another fetching word I saw yestern ... riff ... upspring un...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... I don't know if it would help to teach that -fer...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I thought that you might find this fetching. ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles - 'term' is likely ok. Even overlookt by the OED and...
on: “Anglish”
Fetching words: fet (also means to fetch) ... piece Web...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... boon also means a favor or request as well as...
on: “Anglish”
Why is that so many times, huru those Teutonic words that co...
on: “Anglish”
I hav a long list of "obsolete" words that I'm working thru,...
on: “Anglish”
@Skeeter, I don't English follows the Latin sentence framewo...
on: On Tomorrow
@Wackyruss ... Hav you ever ask'd your coworkers why they sa...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... "Simpler" was the bookwright's words. I quote...
on: “Anglish”
I may be wrong but I only saw six words (out of a 100) on th...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles … LOL … I like that … "She yielded for lunch." I ...
on: “Anglish”
To followup on Ængelfolc's inkhorn of the day ... crepus...
on: “Anglish”
A forgotten workhorse from OE and ME ... bego (be+go) ... se...
on: “Anglish”
---@AnWulf - "It's hard for folks who hav spent years learni...
on: Pled versus pleaded
The thing is that no one in England as a leg to stand on to ...
on: “Anglish”
@Gallitrot ... It's hard for folks who hav spent years learn...
on: “Anglish”
"Preposterous example" … Like "preposterous"? … Maybe outl...
on: “Anglish”
Whew … Stay offline for a few days and things heat up. Where...
on: “Anglish”
to shrepe - to clear: "The fog begins to shrepe yonder." … T...
on: “Anglish”
@Xen ... Stormfront also notes English ... Does that make En...
on: “Anglish”
@Xen ... Stormfront also notes English ... Does that make En...
on: Pled versus pleaded
I didn't say that Scots is French free ... only that it has ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@George7th ... LMAO ... To be truthful, that "spinoff" known...
on: Adverbs better avoided?
"To boldly go where no man has gone before." Nothing wron...
on: “Anglish”
Well, they're at it again ... —The team calls its biolog...
on: “Anglish”
@WW ... "But is it any less pretentious to use words (real o...
on: On Tomorrow
@astudent ... Maybe you should at least read the title ... "...
on: Team names — singular or plural
I would take "Newcastle beat Chelsea" as a past tense. No...
on: “Anglish”
Let's write with a few Latinates as we can. I'll note old wo...
on: “Anglish”
Anent -ise; the Oxford Dict. Online clearly says that the -i...
on: “Anglish”
addyatg! Welcome back. I see that you made it thru DLI. I'v ...
on: Rules for -ise and -ize
I'v been offline for a while and won't be back online for ab...
on: Rules for -ise and -ize
Quick answer since I'm on borrow'd time ... I spend a lot of...
on: Rules for -ise and -ize
@Warsaw Will ... Why do you like to -ise rather than -ize? W...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... now you're getting into the geist of things! ...
on: Not just me who thinks... or Not just me who think... or Not just I who think... or Not just I who thinks...
The usage is "it's not just me who ... " http://books.google...
on: “Anglish”
Speaking of French words that are wontedly said to be from F...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Passion, when first brought into English, was...
on: “Anglish”
Another good word: Bogglish - to be uncertain, doubtful, wav...
on: “Anglish”
"I saw "sell-by-date" in U.S. supermarkets all the time." .....
on: “Anglish”
@jayles ... If you're talking about financial investments, t...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
Jasper is right ... As someone who has learn'd Russian, Germ...
on: “Anglish”
Americans use "expiration date" for the British sell-by date...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
The ban against noting they, them, their in the singular was...
on: Capitalizing Directions
@Manda - overall, no. See http://oxforddictionaries.com/defi...
on: “Anglish”
Jobseeker allowance is a bettering over "unemployment insura...
on: “Anglish”
I meant to say that folks wouldN'T sully their Latin with En...
on: “Anglish”
It's not unwonted to hear, "I put in for that job." The ...
on: “Anglish”
For "transit lounge" ... lounge is good to go so we only nee...
on: “Anglish”
Here an englishening of a German loanword: zeigeisty http://...
on: “Anglish”
M-W has had some fetching WOTDs for the past few months ... ...
on: “American”
Yvetter ... read up above and see why you're wrong ... this ...
on: Past tense of “text”
OK, once again ... text has been in English language as a VE...
on: obliged or obligated?
^^^Oops ... CAN'T blame or credit the Americans....
on: obliged or obligated?
Bischoppe Cesariense..reconsilede to God a man ***obligate*...
on: “American”
@Arturuo 1. The article states: The seven-continent model ...
on: “Anglish”
"Historical linguistics is not just guesswork." ... Sure it ...
on: The use of “hey” in place of “hello”.
@Brus ... While many in the US would find nothing wrong with...
on: Whom are you?
@Elle ... anyways: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/...
on: “American”
@Arturo ... maybe where you're from, it may be true. I haven...
on: “Anglish”
LOL --- We'll hav to agree to disagree for that it's all spe...
on: “Anglish”
Maybe I'm not being clear ... that's always mightlic ... thi...
on: Past tense of “text”
I'm with Warsaw Will ... Bart didn't look too hard ... heck,...
on: “Anglish”
Drop offline for a few weeks and I miss stuff! lol Why yo...
on: “Anglish”
Sorry for the hit and run again, but I'm on limited time. ...
on: “Anglish”
@goofy ... You're kidding right? You cannot possibly say wit...
on: “Anglish”
Let me show what I think is wrong with that argument. OE cly...
on: “Anglish”
@goofy ... Here is what the Oxford Dict. Online (the free ve...
on: Pronouncing “gala”
I'm only on for a day or two ... the net is still out at the...
on: Latest vs. Newest
The latest "the news" attested from 1886. I think over 100 y...
on: “Much More Ready”
Chaucer isn't all that hard ... read it out loud and the wor...
on: Anglican
Anglican - of, relating to, or denoting the Church of Englan...
on: Pronouncing “gala”
@Mediator ... pronunciations and spellings are always changi...
on: Pronouncing “gala”
@Hairy Scot ... Just to make sure I said this right, I look'...
on: “get in contact”
Interesting, I find “get in contact’ or “keep in contact” t...
on: Pronouncing “gala”
@Mediator ... The 'sch' in schedule is not from German. So i...
on: “get in contact”
What is it that yu don't like about 'em?...
on: Topography
Flat is good. I don't know if I'd note "high". Swap terrain ...
on: “Anglish”
lefull ... permissible, permitted; allowable, allowed (leave...
on: Pronouncing “gala”
The Oxford Dict on my laptop has it as gala ... ˈgālə, ˈgalə...
June 14, 2013, 11:38pm • 0 vote
on: Pled versus pleaded
@Limey Pat ... WW is spot on. BTW, "off of" isn't an America...