Apparently, many subjective and objective (cas régime) forms of words were still used in Middle French, at least into the late Middles Ages, if you go through the etymologies of French words. Here are some examples of words in modern French that are reflexes of the Latin nominative, from the Cent...

The OED pronunciation of primer, n.1 is Brit. /ˈprʌɪmə/, /ˈprɪmə/, U.S. /ˈprɪmər/, /ˈpraɪmər/ (in sense 2d) Brit. /ˈprɪmə/, U.S. /ˈprɪmər/, N.Z. /ˈprɪmə/ That shows that apart from sense 2d, the ‘long i’ version is preferred in Britain and the ‘short i’ version is preferred in th...

There have been several proposals for how we’re ever going to get a handle on the ever-mounting close-vote queue. Dupehammer has been especially successful, and there have been several proposals since Mjölnir for awarding more close votes one way or the other, including one to give extra close v...

I've noticed that my allotment of close votes on SO no longer lasts as long as it used to. Maybe it's because there are so many more migration paths, maybe there are many more poor questions (more users means more questions and more questions means more poor questions), or maybe I'm just getting ...

⁢        ⁢        ⁢        ⁢     Double-Badger Superpowers ⁢                                                 Photo credit: Chris Noble at The Wildwood Trust TL;DR: Give holders of CVRQ Steward + silver tag-badge holders double-weighted CVs in that badged tag Give holders of CVRQ Steward +...

I run out of close votes a lot. In fact, in almost any given day in which I actively participate, I use up all of my close votes! And I am really, in the grand scheme of things, not a very active user on this site. Here is a graph of the number of unclosed questions with close votes per month: ...

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Another word for it is Lapsus. According to Wikipedia: A lapsus (Latin for "lapse, slip, error") is an involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking, something long studied in philology. The word is used in quite a few languages.

As a person's commitment to the community increases, I think we should make it possible for high-reputation users to fast-track the closure of certain questions. See here for some of my rationale. Here's what I propose (subject to tweaking). To qualify: User must have 20K of reputation. Us...

Is it okay to say "He had snaggle teeth"? Or there is a better way of describing that problem with teeth?

firstly , I would like to ask what are the top ten most sold non-fiction books of all time & secondly what are the top ten best selling fictionn books of all time

The city of Kansas is ____ curfew. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate preposition.

I wonder if anyone could take a look at this and tell me if it's grammatical. Thank you. Mr bright. Here, are you talking to me? You know I am. Do I? Your Son, Tommy. Where is he? Your guess is as good as mine. I haven't seen the lad in months. Come off it, you know full well what's going ...

What would a driver shout out to the horses other than "whoa"? Late 19th century.

Let's have some fun :). A few days ago, I looked on Youtube to hear the prank calls in English, and found this video. I posted a comment there listing the pranks in the video. Here is a list of the prank names: I.P. Freely = I pee freely: that was easy; Jock Stracp = jockstrap: a jockstrap, I l...

"My parents are the best people I could ever have in my life". Is the sentence above grammatically correct ?

oedipus-complexepic-poetry In Oedipus the Kingwiki, did King Laius, Oedipus' birth father, want to kill Oedipus first? In case studies, sons may appear hostile towards their fathers purely out of defensiveness against the unjust rule of a 'cruel king' archetype. Was this picked up on in Oedi...