Comments on: Monthly Gleanings: December 2009 http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/december_gleaning/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: John Cowan http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/december_gleaning/#comment-156138 John Cowan Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:27:28 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7064#comment-156138 Dušan Vukotić: Because English is very different from other languages. It retains the spelling of foreign words but changes the pronunciation according to its own rules. What is more, when the words come from Latin (as in this case) or Greek, they are usually borrowed along with their foreign plural forms. Dušan Vukotić: Because English is very different from other languages. It retains the spelling of foreign words but changes the pronunciation according to its own rules. What is more, when the words come from Latin (as in this case) or Greek, they are usually borrowed along with their foreign plural forms.

]]> By: Dušan Vukotić http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/december_gleaning/#comment-156022 Dušan Vukotić Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:26:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7064#comment-156022 If I understood well, Mr. Liberman's "objection" was about the usage of "appropriate" letters. Fungus (singular) is pronounced as fúnggəs; why the plural (fungi) sounds differently (fən'jī); or, if it was pronounced differently, why the "proper" letter (in this case j) hadn't been used instead of g? If I understood well, Mr. Liberman’s “objection” was about the usage of “appropriate” letters. Fungus (singular) is pronounced as fúnggəs; why the plural (fungi) sounds differently (fən’jī); or, if it was pronounced differently, why the “proper” letter (in this case j) hadn’t been used instead of g?

]]> By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/december_gleaning/#comment-156016 mollymooly Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:21:32 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7064#comment-156016 Reverse dictionaries are obsolete in the computer age. Having said that, <a href="http://www.onelook.com/?w=*gry&ls=a" rel="nofollow">onelook.com's list of words and phrases ending in -gry</a> is hardly definitive. Reverse dictionaries are obsolete in the computer age. Having said that, onelook.com’s list of words and phrases ending in -gry is hardly definitive.

]]> By: John Cowan http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/december_gleaning/#comment-155992 John Cowan Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:30:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7064#comment-155992 "Mispronounce"? Latin derivatives in English normally have the j-sound in <i>gi</i>, <i>ge</i>. As for <i>bored of</i>, it grates on me too, but no reasons can be given in general for the use of any given preposition with such verbs. “Mispronounce”? Latin derivatives in English normally have the j-sound in gi, ge.

As for bored of, it grates on me too, but no reasons can be given in general for the use of any given preposition with such verbs.

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