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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“What can I do besides complaining” sounds wrong to me but I...
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on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... then hight might be a good swap for cite. Eve...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc - "medu" is meed nowadays and still in the wordbo...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@evath ... Well, you're written a lot and so this may ramble...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... You likely can see that akinship between hight a...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Hairy Scot ... Yea, someone has used my screen name as well...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... English brooks the forefast ur- as in urtext....
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Hairy Scot ... LOL ... Not a big deal to me as long as some...
on: “Anglish”
I just found a website for "freespeling" http://freespeling....
on: “enamored with” and “enamored by”
Looks like the OED accepts of, with, and by: enamor |iˈna...
on: “would of” instead of “would have” or “would’ve”
"Would of, should of, could of" ... Outside of the slangy id...
on: What is the word for intentionally incorrect spelling?
@Hairy Scot ... Only when it makes sense! LOL ... Otherwise ...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
@Derek ... That's pure nonsense since the question was out o...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I didn't mean those words were a threat to En...
on: “Anglish”
Vow is a Latinate ... as is promise oath - solemn promis...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... As I said, we have met the widderwin and he is u...
on: “Anglish”
Yes, ranch has a long, twisted etym. Range has the same root...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I think the befuddling would be to look in wo...
on: What can I do besides...
I think we all agree that the first one sounds wrong. This w...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I don't think we have two sunder wordbooks .....
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Hairy Scot ... How ironic is it that the Scots have kept so...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Hairy Scot ... I'm aware of the Anglish Moot. I commend the...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Mediator ... LOL ... then what would you say about "tungful...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
LOL ... It's truly onefold (simple) ... I will shove back at...
on: “Anglish”
Everyone should know most of these 50 and the 30 or more tha...
on: “Anglish”
Tenses from OE future - tóweardnes f ... towardness past...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... I'm still working getting folks to brook asf (an...
on: “Anglish”
Well, I was like the writer on the forum ... I wondered what...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Mediator ... If you aren't worried about "correctness" or "...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... Overblown is good! Stretch would work as well I ...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
@Hairy ... That's a difference between British and American ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... The anterior paragraph ... that's sad and funny!...
on: “On accident” and “study on . . .”
Here is a map of the usage ... sadly, one of those blue dots...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
^^^ Ing, I know that ... Why do you think I thought otherwis...
on: “Anglish”
I should add that "evenness" is also uniformity ... Does uni...
on: “Anglish”
Evenness could also work ... tho sometimes it doesn't match ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Thanks! You know ... sometimes something is l...
on: Over exaggeration
I've never used it but it seems so: 1983, International S...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles - The word "evenhood" (also evenhede) is in the old ...
on: Over exaggeration
Quoting poor logic does not help your case. Neither of you h...
on: “American”
Yes, it is correct to refer to citizens of the USA as Americ...
on: “8 inches is” or “8 inches are”
You need to put the question in context. The length is ei...
on: Over exaggeration
@Hairy Scot ... Can you "slightly" exaggerate? Can you "grea...
on: Over exaggeration
Yes, the facts remain that there are degrees of exaggeration...
on: “On accident” and “study on . . .”
@K ... I agree with you, more or less, but only so far. One ...
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
@Brus ... not in the US Army. The adjective comes before nou...
on: Backward vs. Backwards?
From the OED: usage: In US English, the adverb form is s...
on: “Anglish”
@dogreed ... It is eath to see, that you have not read the t...
on: “Anglish”
A couple of interesting lists: a sampler of obsolete Englis...
on: On Tomorrow
@Roxanne ... It's been many years since I graduated from an ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Interesting. There is vowel shift for the OE ...
on: “Anglish”
This word might come in handy for unexpectedly, suddenly, un...
on: Texted
I don't always agree with wordbooks, but this time I do. Fro...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayes ... English is rife with words that are bewilderingly...
on: “Anglish”
Tripped over another good one that is still in the wordbook ...
on: “Anglish”
Here's another good one that I brooked today on another thre...
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
BTW, most old military terms are French/Latin based. I wrote...
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
Definitely sergeants major ... http://www.sergeantsmajor.org...
on: Victorian Era English
@Porsche ... Yea, I know Niceone was criticizing shotgun's r...
on: “Anglish”
Maybe twice-wed ... twice-asundered? "Those whom God has...
on: “Anglish”
@Stanmund ... BTW, the word "wode" has sundry sunder meaning...
on: “Anglish”
Forgive me for venting here before I get to my ord (point) ....
on: “Anglish”
I should point out that I like to brook sunder for separate....
on: attorneys general vs. attorney generals
@msades ... You're on the mark! This is a holdover from when...
on: “Anglish”
Here is the ME entry: shīden (v.) P.ppl. shīde [From shīd(...
on: “Anglish”
Maybe German Hohn, verhöhnen? for hosp .. hosc ... Just a gu...
on: “Anglish”
I don't know the etym of fraked/frakel beyond OE. Ængelfolc ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... No, I didn't say that. However, there are sundry...
on: “Anglish”
@Standmund ... You need to tell us why you're looking for a ...
on: “Anglish”
@Stanmund ... wealhstod m. interpreter, translator, medi...
on: “Anglish”
Well, it seems that fraked and frakel did make it past Middl...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles, if you're asking if "headstrong" = pejorative, I'd ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Yes, I could have written that better. How ab...
on: Victorian Era English
@Niceone ... Actually, it was over a year before that commen...
on: “Anglish”
Oct. 14 ... The Battle of Senlac Ridge (Hastings) ... Anyone...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... I think see where the problem is! I'm still work...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Brus ... Believe it or not, I don't hate latinates. I even ...
on: “Anglish”
I'v set off another firestorm about the Anglo-Germanic - Lat...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Brus ... Half of the worldstock is latinates ... Think abou...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc - spend OE spendan ... O.H.G. spendon, Ger., M.Du...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... Could use your grammar insight here. "What ca...
on: Signage
Being a former cop ... the police-speak comes from the wont ...
on: “Anglish”
Teld in ME also picked up the thought of "shelter" ... A tem...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@Brus ... Sometimes you must fight fire with fire. When some...
on: Signage
@Brus ... You left out that the kiwi bureaucracy has coined ...
on: “Anglish”
Now for some more weighty frains ... the word "teld" is in t...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... I'm with you about latinates ... on another thre...
on: “Anglish”
And, we all know, that the day before allhallows is hallowee...
on: “Anglish”
I was just at the Anglish Wiki ... I think somebody over the...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
@evath ... This is not an attack on you but on the mindset o...
on: Prepositions at the end of a clause
Then you need to retune your ear. It's a myth that you canno...
on: Usage of ‘I have doubt that’
@princess14 ... I think that "We have to share doubts, sugge...
on: “Under urgency”
Well, not the way I brook "stand down" but I guess it is a g...
on: Over exaggeration
over- prefix Definition of OVER- 1: so as to exceed or su...
on: “Under urgency”
I'd be more worried about what they passed "under urgency": ...
on: “Under urgency”
I don't think it is wrong grammatically ... liken to "under ...
on: “hone in” vs. “home in”
"Home in" is the correct version. I had never heard of "hone...
on: Hang Glide
Some folks have the same problem with scuba dive ... dived o...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... Remember that Eastre was the Goddess of Fertilit...
on: Why “behead” and not “dehead” or “unhead”?
Y'all are looking at the wrong part. Look at head as a verb ...
November 9, 2011, 8:35pm • 0 vote
on: “Anglish”
While Chaucer may have been using in a passive sense; the ve...