Lawton

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Jun 15	comment	What causes a verb to be infinitive only? hm. Wiktionary claims spited is a word. I don't know if I buy that. I can't smited or bited...
Jun 15	comment	What causes a verb to be infinitive only? It can be used as a noun of course, but I checked dictionaries. No past tense. I can't imaging that I would spit (to bite), spote (to smite), or spited (to slight) someone. I checked: oxforddictionaries.com/definition/spite and another.
Jun 14	revised	What causes a verb to be infinitive only? added 28 characters in body
Jun 14	asked	What causes a verb to be infinitive only?
Jun 14	answered	Can itself be used for a group of people?
Jun 14	awarded	Commentator
Jun 13	comment	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? Sort of. I believe that people using that pronunciation are generally aware that it is "wrong" and use the alternate pronunciation for clarity (differentiating between daemon and actual demons). Telling a computer illiterate about a demon would confuse them. A new word, pronounced as daymon, is useful for preventing that.
Jun 13	comment	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? @tchrist You convinced me. I wasn't buying the answer because I felt that the edge case still wasn't explained; why does Brittanica use the archaic ae but pronounce it as ee. The business logic that they must use the same name to keep the trademark explains the contradiction. Thanks.
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Jun 13	accepted	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced?
Jun 13	comment	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? When æ appears in writing Modern English, [it] is pronounced the same as that sequence of vowel letters would be. Encyclopædia, encyclopedia, and encyclopaedia are all pronounced the same. I feel like those statements conflict. I wouldn't pronounce ae and e the same way. Is there something I am missing?
Jun 13	revised	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? deleted 23 characters in body
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Jun 13	comment	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? Even Encyclopaedia Brittanica pronounces it as a long e sound, in their ads and so on. According to your answer, that is wrong. Is such a major organization, who should clearly understand pronunciation, making an error in their own name?
Jun 13	comment	What do you call someone who betrays his/her spouse? It would probably be perfectly acceptable to call someone an adulterer if they were actually convicted of adultery, in the same way it is only permissible to call someone a murderer if they were actually convicted of or had confessed to murder. Many people forget that adultery is actually illegal still, at least it is in my state. Here it is actually on the books at a punishment up to life in prison, though that would never happen in the modern day.
Jun 13	revised	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? edited title
Jun 13	revised	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced? edited title
Jun 13	asked	How is “æ” supposed to be pronounced?
Jun 8	comment	“These sort of things”: is it grammatical? (2,670,000 hits on Google) Actually, saying that these sort of was more common is very interesting. Maybe it used to be perfectly natural. It just sounds wrong now. Given that those were more common, archaic may well be more accurate than incorrect.
Jun 8	comment	“These sort of things”: is it grammatical? (2,670,000 hits on Google) It isn't incorrect because it violates a grammatical rule, as exceptions to those are common. Its incorrect because it still sounds awkward to the modern ear. If it stops sounding awkward and wrong, then it stops being awkward and wrong.