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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #550 on: February 26, 2010, 04:57:39 PM »
I've always thought of it as "bated" and assumed it's related to abated.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #551 on: February 26, 2010, 05:25:53 PM »
Everybody's a winner! ... except the children:

Quote from: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The whole common room listened with baited breath.

Fun with grammar:

Quote from: Geoffrey Taylor, [i]Cruel, Clever Cat[/i]
Sally, having swallowed cheese
Directs down holes the scented breeze
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #552 on: February 26, 2010, 08:58:51 PM »
Don't wanna go through all 37 pages of this thread... but does anyone here read Language Log. It's a very good linguistics blog, and does wonders to dispel myths and rumours propagated by over-zealous and misinformed high school teachers.
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #553 on: February 26, 2010, 11:16:15 PM »
Or maybe you misunderstood the passage, pix. Had the characters been eating worms?
There's no deceit in the cauliflower.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #554 on: February 27, 2010, 12:13:10 PM »
Don't wanna go through all 37 pages of this thread... but does anyone here read Language Log. It's a very good linguistics blog, and does wonders to dispel myths and rumours propagated by over-zealous and misinformed high school teachers.
This is great. Thanks for the link!

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #555 on: March 03, 2010, 10:12:14 PM »
I've always thought the phrase was "deep-seated" not "deep-seeded," but I've seen the latter pretty frequently of late (and right now in a student paper), so I was beginning to doubt my instinct. Curious to see how many of you know which is correct off the top of your heads - no cheating. :)

(Incidentally, while I was looking up the right answer, I discovered all kinds of fun stuff, like the plural of "oxymoron" and the word that describes redundancies like "PIN number."  Bonus points for anyone who knows those!)

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« Reply #556 on: March 03, 2010, 10:18:53 PM »
I've always used "deep-seated" though I've also doubted it before.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #557 on: March 03, 2010, 10:23:43 PM »
I thought it was deep-seeded as in deeply planted and hard to kill.

"His hate was deep-seeded."


I have no idea but my girlfriend says oxymorai?
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #558 on: March 03, 2010, 10:24:01 PM »
I've always used "deep-seated" though I've also doubted it before.
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #559 on: March 03, 2010, 10:39:31 PM »

 

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