AnWulf
Joined: June 19, 2011
Number of comments posted: 561
Number of votes received: 152
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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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 ...
on: Fora vs Forums
@rauxa ... Forum is not neologism (a newly coined word). It ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
From OED: plead |plēd| verb ( past pleaded or pled |pled|) ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@AndyAlm ... Just because that the rules can change doesn't ...
on: “Anglish”
Found these by accident: To study hard ... swot ... Teach...
on: “Anglish”
Here ya go: Wantrust is legit: Webster's Revised Unabridged ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... If I had athlete's foot, I wouldn't tell her tha...
on: O’clock
@anurag ... Have a cite? Your claim that it is "on clock" ga...
on: “Anglish”
@addyatg ... 63 weeks for Pashto? Wow, that's long. I'v hear...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Thanks for the into. It looks like scrutiny f...
on: “This Wednesday” vs. “Next Wednesday”
@Entomophagist ... Very true, Tuesday week means "a week fro...
on: What happened to who, whom and whose?
@kylierain ... Never ... never ... trust Microsoft Word's gr...
on: cannot vs. can not
@Matt P ... Not true. Cannot is used, taught, and stated as ...
on: “Anglish”
@addytag ... "ç = ch as in beach ie = ee as in bean Iç...
on: “Anglish”
@ Stanmund ... hallowed = venerable hallow |ˈhalō| verb ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Back to scrutiny ... My question was more abo...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I wasn't fraining your knowledge of OE forefa...
on: “Anglish”
Well guys, I've been offline for a week and I see that not m...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@Marian ... of course pled is a word. But in case you don't ...
on: my being vs me being
Both forms are correct! This is NOT an either/or. In Stru...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... LOL ... a thru-deck cruiser ... and no-one asked...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... research ... that's a Latinate tho search does l...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles ... I must andett (confess) that I chose 'rootless' ...
on: “Anglish”
The upsprungal (upsprungle? ... upsprung + al or le): "Th...
on: “Anglish”
Ængelfolc ... Maybe you have more info on the root "veloper"...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... "I spent so long in Eastern Europe that I became...
on: Oblige to mean “force”
You're veering off in a totally different direction. Outside...
on: “Anglish”
apostasy >>> late 14c., "renunciation, abandonment or neglec...
on: The use of “hey” in place of “hello”.
@IngisKahn ... All these years and no one has bothered to te...
on: “Anglish”
@Stanmund ... Just to be uncloudly ... apostasy isn't a "Lat...
on: “Anglish”
@leode ... The Real Academia may put out "Spanish" words for...
on: “Anglish”
Speaking of Rume (OE Rum - space), read this from NASA: ...
on: “Anglish”
Speaking of French ... This Frenchie is claiming that French...
on: “Anglish”
Just found a new toy ... http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ ... I...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
Wow ... Seven years and counting! ... and I thought the Angl...
on: Isn’t the word “feminism” itself gender-biased?
FWIW, I think the falloff in the use of the word feminism is...
on: While/among/amid vs whilst/amongst/amidst
While, among, and amid are much older. I quote: Whiles i...
on: “Anglish”
Maybe it is because I'm tired but I don't see the OED's mean...
on: Oblige to mean “force”
If you're going to quote me ... finish it in context. "HERE ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... I agree with you. Eath and ease seem to be co...
on: “Anglish”
Word Origin Influences Your Writing Voice http://www.dail...
on: Oblige to mean “force”
@goofy, in this byspel it does and it did ... I know allll a...
on: “Anglish”
I'v been stumped on how to um(b)-go (go around ... um+go or ...
on: “Anglish”
I stumbled across another OE word that is still alive albe...
on: “Anglish”
Past is eath ... bygone. Just use it as a noun. In the bygon...
on: “Anglish”
Lots of word that can be edquickened: beðryccan to press ...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... *Forþgesceaft "II. the future world, state...
on: “Anglish”
Here is one of those frainable words: stun Most will lis...
on: “Anglish”
No dates given but in sundry sources. The Middle English ...
on: “Anglish”
Here's another word that needs to be edquickened: OE nytt .....
on: “Anglish”
BTW, I forgot to say that the word "press" does appear in OE...
on: Oblige to mean “force”
@porsch ... Just because it's not the way that *I* would wri...
on: What happened to who, whom and whose?
I've been down this road so many times that I kept the URLs:...
on: “Anglish”
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Th...
on: “Anglish”
As for the word print as in a verb ... That will take some t...
on: “Anglish”
@Stanmund ... It can be brooked to hint at "future" as in: ...
on: Oblige to mean “force”
The sentence if perfectly correct. Oblige means "compel". ...
on: “This Wednesday” vs. “Next Wednesday”
Must be a British thing ... I only use "this + day" to refer...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... Yea, sometimes I'm taken aback but which words a...
on: “Anglish”
With towardness, I guess the frain would be ... Do we move t...
on: “Anglish”
German has a much clearer noun for the verb to come ... Kunf...
on: “Anglish”
shaft and geshaft both seem to have a root meaning of life (...
on: Pled versus pleaded
They weren't wrong to do so. From OE: snîcan to sneak al...
on: The opposite of “awaken”?
@Mikee ... Skops (scops, poets) challenge more than Scrabble...
on: “Anglish”
@Stanmund ... I don't know why you brought up "henchman". Wh...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... That's "my bad" ... I should have written "fo...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... LOL ... I liked the one about atheist ... a pers...
on: “Anglish”
All about þorn http://evertype.com/blog/thorn/ Reclaiming þ...
on: “Anglish”
There are many combinations with lust ... I found lustgrin (...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... LOL ... You're right. A few fremd words add a "b...
on: “Anglish”
Since we're starting a new month ... September, what a borin...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@mmmmmm ... I'm really tired right now so I'm not understand...
on: “Anglish”
To get your blood heated up ... here is a post "100 Beautifu...
on: “Anglish”
The reason I dither about brooking "mark" for "trait" is tha...
on: “for long”
It is idiomatic but maybe I can shed some light on it ... or...
on: “Anglish”
Peasant is one Latinate that isn't used very much in the US,...
on: “Anglish”
I found byspel with one of the meanings being "example" in a...
on: “Anglish”
Things up in the air: Which word to use for example: bi...
on: “Anglish”
mark = trait? Maybe ... But a "marked man" is usually a cond...
on: “Anglish”
The snag with "commonspeak" is that "common" is a Latinate. ...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... Does that mean that I can keep rendezvous as lon...
on: “Anglish”
If you want your head to spin ... just go to wordbook websit...
on: “My writing books” or “Me writing books”?
That should be "or is" or "and or"....
on: On Tomorrow
@kph - I'm with you. I lived in Memphis for many years and I...
on: “My writing books” or “Me writing books”?
This is what my dictionary on the computer says: Gerund - a ...
on: “Anglish”
I think healer would be a good word for physician. Leech mad...
on: Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
@cris ... I pronounce the l in walk and talk ... common in t...
on: Team names — singular or plural
Must be a British thing ... An American would say, "England ...
on: “Anglish”
I gave you the option of wiped out because I didn't know if ...
on: “Anglish”
@jayles The word 'wordstock' isn't very new. I found it b...
on: “Anglish”
@Ængelfolc ... Thanks for the info. Since I'm living as an e...
on: “Anglish”
@Jayles ... I see what you're saying ... but I'm not sure if...
on: Proper use of st, nd, rd, and th — ordinal indicators
I fix the problem by writing it in the military fashion ... ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
OK, finally to the post itself. While I like pled, etymologi...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@In Fact ... What about need and ned, heed and hed, seed and...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@Alice ... Let me consult my medium circa materiam ... Hmmmm...
on: Pled versus pleaded
@JusticeJim ... Pet peeve alert! ... "All but myself and one...
on: “think of” vs. “think to”
I think you win! Think to isn't even in the debate in the BB...
October 5, 2011, 10:40am • 0 vote
on: Hang Glide
Some folks have the same problem with scuba dive ... dived o...