In this case I just did a full-text search of HathiTrust's catalog for "and per se and" (quotes of course are part of the query in this case). These are two results of many.
From The Frumentary by William King (1699)[0]: U’s conversation ’s equal to his wine, You sup with W, whene’er you dine: X, Y, and Z, hating to be confin’d, Ramble to the next Eating-house they find;... And Per Se And…
The contractors in that joke are for the CEO's kitchen reno: > ...complicated global factors like [one], [two], and my desire for a marble kitchen island with a waterfall edge. As we all know, our competitors are…
Home button on a keyboard, tap the top of the screen on iOS, and I believe Android implements something similar. I agree with the other commenter here. If a text-only article follows the tenets of some version of…
Words are only ever added to the OED after a period of use. Before performant made it into the OED as an adjective, the nominal form was listed as a "nonce-word" only and didn't merit its own entry; it was kept under…
This wouldn't really be pro/rel, not as it's implemented in European football anyway. It's a single league where entry into the lucrative year-end tournament is partly based on long-term (3- or 5-year) performance,…
This image from Streetview, taken about halfway across the bridge, shows the scale well, I think: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.439515,-79.9004771,3a,75y,99...
> Is it supposed to sound like the end of "turquoise?" Yes, though some speakers use an S rather than a Z sound (think "choice"). I have only heard these pronunciations from British speakers.
I can say I have heard this from native speakers, but I can't pull up any YouTube links right now. I suspect I've heard it from people who don't always go by the spelling pronunciation, in the same way many people who…
> An-th-ony (with TH from "the") Out of curiosity, is it definitely the voiced TH from "the," rather than the unvoiced TH from "thing?" In the US the spelling pronunciation of Anthony is by far the more common (at least…
> "Please list the most important things that give meaning to your life" The actual English-language version[0]: > ...What about your life do you currently find meaningful, fulfilling or satisfying? What keeps you going…
"Cushion" is a particularly bizarre example, because even if speakers were to stress the second syllable when using it as a verb, it still wouldn't demonstrate initial-stress derivation. The noun "cushion" is not…
The point is that context usually suffices to tell which word is which, same as with wait/weight, time/thyme, and so on. Speakers with the pin-pen merger do pronounce these words the same, and I've known someone who was…
> While linguists specify a matrix of vowel sounds, a lot of people use vowel sounds that land in between them Definitely, but this is equally true of mat, met, and mate. As for marry/merry/Mary, there are speakers with…
No, this merger only affects the vowel in "pen," not "pine." So it would be "pineapple apple pin."
For speakers without the merger, marry:merry:Mary as mat:met:mate. If you didn't grow up with the distinction (as I didn't), you may find it easy to enough to notice the difference—particularly between marry (~mat) and…
Comparable to one use case of the passive voice, maybe. What do you mean by "intended agent"? "Agent" has a common definition in linguistics, and an agent is only an agent in the context of a verb, not an overarching…
I'm not sure I agree that a distinction needs to be made between the two, certainly not on lines of agency. The "our" in "to our surprise" may or may not correspond to an agent, patient, etc., in the modified clause. To…
"To our surprise" is an adverbial. It has no voice. It can modify passive or active constructions, but it does not prefer one over the other. Active: To our surprise, they had left the door open. Passive: To our…
The word "tweet" wasn't added to the OED, just a new meaning of it. Two entries for "tweet" (one for the verb, one for the noun and interjection) have been in the OED since 1916, with citations going back to the 16th…
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "stoppage"? I think baseball does have a pacing problem, but it's really cultural more than anything else: games are about 1.5x as long today as they were 50 years ago, even though…
There's no watch to kill in baseball. You have to get the other team out a set number of times.
> I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns." This may be because bike lanes are placed on the left side of major one-way avenues in…
On major avenues in Manhattan, but not necessarily on side streets[0] or in other boroughs[1]. [0] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740039,-73.9587169,3a,75y,1... [1] -…
Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6…
In this case I just did a full-text search of HathiTrust's catalog for "and per se and" (quotes of course are part of the query in this case). These are two results of many.
From The Frumentary by William King (1699)[0]: U’s conversation ’s equal to his wine, You sup with W, whene’er you dine: X, Y, and Z, hating to be confin’d, Ramble to the next Eating-house they find;... And Per Se And…
The contractors in that joke are for the CEO's kitchen reno: > ...complicated global factors like [one], [two], and my desire for a marble kitchen island with a waterfall edge. As we all know, our competitors are…
Home button on a keyboard, tap the top of the screen on iOS, and I believe Android implements something similar. I agree with the other commenter here. If a text-only article follows the tenets of some version of…
Words are only ever added to the OED after a period of use. Before performant made it into the OED as an adjective, the nominal form was listed as a "nonce-word" only and didn't merit its own entry; it was kept under…
This wouldn't really be pro/rel, not as it's implemented in European football anyway. It's a single league where entry into the lucrative year-end tournament is partly based on long-term (3- or 5-year) performance,…
This image from Streetview, taken about halfway across the bridge, shows the scale well, I think: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.439515,-79.9004771,3a,75y,99...
> Is it supposed to sound like the end of "turquoise?" Yes, though some speakers use an S rather than a Z sound (think "choice"). I have only heard these pronunciations from British speakers.
I can say I have heard this from native speakers, but I can't pull up any YouTube links right now. I suspect I've heard it from people who don't always go by the spelling pronunciation, in the same way many people who…
> An-th-ony (with TH from "the") Out of curiosity, is it definitely the voiced TH from "the," rather than the unvoiced TH from "thing?" In the US the spelling pronunciation of Anthony is by far the more common (at least…
> "Please list the most important things that give meaning to your life" The actual English-language version[0]: > ...What about your life do you currently find meaningful, fulfilling or satisfying? What keeps you going…
"Cushion" is a particularly bizarre example, because even if speakers were to stress the second syllable when using it as a verb, it still wouldn't demonstrate initial-stress derivation. The noun "cushion" is not…
The point is that context usually suffices to tell which word is which, same as with wait/weight, time/thyme, and so on. Speakers with the pin-pen merger do pronounce these words the same, and I've known someone who was…
> While linguists specify a matrix of vowel sounds, a lot of people use vowel sounds that land in between them Definitely, but this is equally true of mat, met, and mate. As for marry/merry/Mary, there are speakers with…
No, this merger only affects the vowel in "pen," not "pine." So it would be "pineapple apple pin."
For speakers without the merger, marry:merry:Mary as mat:met:mate. If you didn't grow up with the distinction (as I didn't), you may find it easy to enough to notice the difference—particularly between marry (~mat) and…
Comparable to one use case of the passive voice, maybe. What do you mean by "intended agent"? "Agent" has a common definition in linguistics, and an agent is only an agent in the context of a verb, not an overarching…
I'm not sure I agree that a distinction needs to be made between the two, certainly not on lines of agency. The "our" in "to our surprise" may or may not correspond to an agent, patient, etc., in the modified clause. To…
"To our surprise" is an adverbial. It has no voice. It can modify passive or active constructions, but it does not prefer one over the other. Active: To our surprise, they had left the door open. Passive: To our…
The word "tweet" wasn't added to the OED, just a new meaning of it. Two entries for "tweet" (one for the verb, one for the noun and interjection) have been in the OED since 1916, with citations going back to the 16th…
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "stoppage"? I think baseball does have a pacing problem, but it's really cultural more than anything else: games are about 1.5x as long today as they were 50 years ago, even though…
There's no watch to kill in baseball. You have to get the other team out a set number of times.
> I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns." This may be because bike lanes are placed on the left side of major one-way avenues in…
On major avenues in Manhattan, but not necessarily on side streets[0] or in other boroughs[1]. [0] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740039,-73.9587169,3a,75y,1... [1] -…
Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6…