AnWulf
Joined: June 19, 2011
Number of comments posted: 558
Number of votes received: 151
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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Recent Comments
on: “Anglish”
Bringing a word forward from Middle English isn't too hard. ...
on: Over exaggeration
@R Smith ... Then all the uses below are wrong? According to...
on: Computer mouses or computer mice?
It's been that way since Old English: mus > mys ... mouse >...
on: Computer mouses or computer mice?
Computer mice wins in Google Books ... hands down: http://bo...
on: “Anglish”
@Gallitrot ... I'm not a subscriber to the OED so I can't se...
on: On Tomorrow
@Brus ... Changing a noun to verb used to require a prefix ....
on: On Tomorrow
@Brus: From the OED: Source verb [ with obj. ] • obtain fro...
on: affectatious
affectatious — pretentious, artificial, or doing something j...
on: Texted
@theone ... LMAO ... AT YOU! That was exactly my point but s...
on: “Anglish”
There are sundry words that I believe to be either truly of ...
on: Texted
Yesterday I wanted something to so painted the house. Then I...
on: “Anglish”
birr from OE byre: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/birr ...
on: Word in question: Conversate
@DaniS ... If you're referring to this from douglas.bryrant:...
on: Past tense of “text”
@another try ... most verbs that end in "t" take an "ed" pas...
on: Actress instead of Actor
To answer the question, going by Googles ngrams, it looks li...
on: “Anglish”
Today I tripped across this word: tholemod* - meaning patien...
on: “Anglish”
The other day I wrote "mindsight" for imagination without ev...
on: “Anglish”
An interesting word: min adj - less, small (OE min) See it ...
on: Pronunciation: aunt
@Mom ... as far as aunt ... I think I say it like my parents...
on: “Anglish”
@HolyMackerel ... Good catch. Yes, they are and can be found...
on: ye, yer, yers
Y'all (mark the first usage note is disputed): http://en.wik...
on: What is the word for intentionally incorrect spelling?
I call it freespelling ... I spell it with two L's, the webs...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... It's only natural that soldiers will take wor...
on: Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
@Tom in TX ... Yu made me laugh with the caulking gun! Can y...
on: “Anglish”
geld (n.) "royal tax in medieval England" gelt (n.) "mone...
on: Fora vs Forums
@SteveWParker ... I can't speak for Chinese. I kno just enuf...
on: Pronunciation: aunt
@An English Professor - "There are over a thousand words in ...
on: me vs. myself
@Warsaw Will ... I strongly disagree. This is very much a gr...
on: Jedi
I don't know about the word jedi but sith (and gesith) has a...
on: Jedi
I don't know about the word jedi but sith (and gesith) has a...
on: “hone in” vs. “home in”
If we kept away from every word that Bush used, we wouldn't ...
on: ye, yer, yers
@porsche ... OE did hav duals. We still kind of see it with ...
on: ye, yer, yers
If one were only looking for a plural form for the subj. and...
on: ye, yer, yers
Again, I refer you to the Bible passage above which shows th...
on: “Anglish”
Actually, to my surprise, in OE there was mēdgilda mēd = ...
on: “Anglish”
Well I do hav two unopened bottles of wine ... To be a l...
on: ye, yer, yers
Yes, ye ... in the late phases ... can be found being used a...
on: ye, yer, yers
Thou and ye ... and you. Let me see if I can help straigh...
on: “Anglish”
glæd means glad ... gesælig means happy (as does sælig) G...
on: OK vs Okay
@Talvieno ... It wasn't from a few folks learning Choctow. B...
on: Word in question: Conversate
It is also often claimed that a ‘word’ is not a ‘word’ (or i...
on: Really happy or real happy
@porsche ... otherwise known as flat adverbs. They were once...
on: why does english have capital letters?
I, for one, am grateful that we still benote capital letters...
on: Complete Sentence
Yes. No. Maybe?...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles ... Wlatsome \Wlat"some\, a.- Loathsome; disgusting...
on: eg, e.g., or eg.
@Patrick ... Would yu write: "for example, the dog is blue" ...
on: “I’ve got” vs. “I have”
@Hairy Scot ... I don't think anyone disagrees that "I hav" ...
on: OK vs Okay
The compelling point for me is the date of the earliest reco...
on: decapitalize vs. uncapitalize
In Java programming, it is "uncapitalize": uncapitalize("Thi...
on: me vs. myself
1. @Porsche ... Yu're absolutely right. The brooking of myse...
on: OK vs Okay
"We arrived OK" notation in the hand-written diary of a tra...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelgolc ... Thanks, I wanted to be wis about it. Sometime...
on: Plural form of anonymous
Per the OED ... Latin from Greek anōnumos ‘nameless’ (from ...
on: Perpendicular
Here are three meanings given for a right angle: M-W: the...
on: “Anglish”
Ængelfolc ... etym frain for yu. I'm befuddled from the nota...
on: “enamored with” and “enamored by”
"He was enamoured with the semlynesse." [of an image in the ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayes ... Yes, we do "go to the polls" when we choose ... l...
on: “Anglish”
@Holy Macker ... not wis as to what yu're looking for. I'm g...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
^^^Oops, that first sentence should read ... as if it isn't ...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
A few folks have mentioned "cafe" as if it isn't spelled wit...
on: hanged vs. hung
FWIW, the OED on my laptop says: usage: In modern English...
on: “Anglish”
I have the whole list of OE grammar terms on my old laptop. ...
on: “Anglish”
@Holy Mackerel ... That was my first thought too. However,...
on: “Anglish”
Yes, the Scots ... being further away from the Norman-French...
on: Perpendicular
@Hairy Scot ... LOL ... I may stay away from Latinates, but ...
on: Rules for -ise and -ize
Fower describes analyze/analyse as "... two equally indefens...
on: “Anglish”
Well we do find seldseen brooking of the en-/em- forefasts i...
on: Perpendicular
FWIW Hairy Scot, I'm with yu on this one. I'v had a lot of m...
on: Backward vs. Backwards?
One can avoid regard/regards all together by brooking "anent...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængfolc - Here's one for yur skills. The forefast en- is se...
on: “Anglish”
@stanmund ... Yu work too hard at this. Try the onefold thin...
on: “I’ve got” vs. “I have”
@Chris B ... I think someone upthread said it but I'll say i...
on: When “one of” many things is itself plural
@Becky ... Yu'r joking right? Immutable? That's just a bit "...
on: “Anglish”
@black jayles ... there were many words for "government" and...
on: “Anglish”
I saw this post on a blog: This kind of detail of English...
on: ...ward/s and un...worthy
English is highly bendsome (flexible) with forefasts, afterf...
on: “Anglish”
I'm not catholic so I don't hav a dog in this fight so to sp...
on: Interchangeability of possessive “s” and “of”
The -'s ending in English is leftover of the Anglo-Saxon gen...
on: Word for Showing Off Your MacBook at Cafe — Mac off
^^^That should be "increased" ... mac or not, I'm the king o...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... dream is good for what happens in yur sleep. ...
on: Pronunciation: aunt
The other spelling for gauge is gage ... and that's the one ...
on: “Anglish”
Here's a word that I just found ... undeadliness (immortalit...
on: Word for Showing Off Your MacBook at Cafe — Mac off
I'm a mac user and a libertarian ... I think the haters are ...
on: Correct preposition following different?
@Hairy Scot ... Notice that I say that English is a Germanic...
on: Hi all vs. Hi everybody
The other variant in the South is, "Hey y'all!" ... The answ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... At first I thought that yu had misspelled co-loc...
on: Correct preposition following different?
Better different than boring! lol I don't get wrapped umb...
on: “Anglish”
Yes, knowing which words are Latinates can sometimes be hard...
on: Correct preposition following different?
From the OED: usage: Different from, different than, and ...
on: Had he breakfast this morning?
I would add that the question, "Had he breakfast this mornin...
on: “Anglish”
Another on that has been bothering me but I think I'm near t...
on: “Anglish”
Well, I'v found out today that "foreset" is still in play in...
on: subconscious vs unconscious
Heck, I still hav trouble between conscious and conscience! ...
on: “Anglish”
This one deserves a bit of thought. Read/rede ... they share...
on: Idea Vs. Ideal
What is this ... gang up on Southerners? OK, I've lived in m...
on: “Anglish”
Well I'v found a few more words: 1. snape = criticize, re...
on: Texted
@Tom in Tx, ""Text message"? What other types of texts are s...
on: “Anglish”
Seems that there is a Dutch version of Anglish ... And it ha...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... rank, range, ranch ... but not rankle! Which ...
February 14, 2012, 3:11pm • 0 vote
on: “Anglish”
Sig (victory) - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sig ... from M...