Asservation

[nq:1]Is 'asservation' a word?[/nq]
Yes, but it's obsolete now.

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]Is 'asservation' a word?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, but it's obsolete now.[/nq]
I asked my wife about it this morning ... she fell on some stairs yesterday ... has a big purple bruise today ... says she experienced her own personal asseveration. She says she used to know what 'asseveration' meant, but she has been adumbrated by her English teachers to remove any fancy words from her writing. Sh

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[nq:1]Today's vent: Why can't I buy a large coffee at Starbuck's? What the **** is a 'venti'?[/nq]
If it's like the few coffees I've had at Starbucks, it's a large cup with a small dribble of coffee at the bottom, filled up with over- aerated milk foam.
Basically, Starbucks sells air.

Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England

[nq:1]Basically, Starbucks sells air.[/nq]
Caramel flavored air, if you get a macchiato. That must be the coffee equivalent of drinking a Big Mac.

[nq:2]Basically, Starbucks sells air.[/nq]
[nq:1]Caramel flavored air, if you get a macchiato. That must be the coffee equivalent of drinking a Big Mac.[/nq]
ObAUE: When I was a child, we pronounced "caramel" with two syllables, as "karr-mel". Does this survive? (I switched to "car-a-mel" many years ago, but my mind's ear refuses to hear that form coupled with "apple".)

Cheers, Ha

[nq:1]ObAUE: When I was a child, we pronounced "caramel" with two syllables, as "karr-mel". Does this survive? (I switched to "car-a-mel" many years ago, but my mind's ear refuses to hear that form coupled with "apple".)[/nq]
They're about equally common among respondents to Bert Vaux's online survey; the two-syllable version seems to be more prevalent in the Midwest and the three-syllable ver

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[nq:1]Today's vent: Why can't I buy a large coffee at Starbuck's? What the **** is a 'venti'?[/nq]
You have to drink it by the window..
I love arguing with the slack-jawed youth at the movie concession counter about the meaning of the word "medium"...surely if there are only two cup sizes available, neither can be medium, and if there are three or more, the extr

[nq:2]ObAUE: When I was a child, we pronounced "caramel" with ... mind's ear refuses to hear that form coupled with "apple".)[/nq]
[nq:1]They're about equally common among respondents to Bert Vaux's online survey; the two-syllable version seems to be more prevalent in the Midwest and the three-syllable version elsewhere.

[nq:1]On 30 Oct 2003, Aaron J. Dinkin wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]They're about equally common among respondents to Bert Vaux's online ... in the Midwest and the three-syllable version elsewhere. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q 4.html[/nq]
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[nq:1]On 30 Oct 2003, wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]Caramel flavored air, if you get a macchiato. That must be the coffee equivalent of drinking a Big Mac.[/nq]
[nq:1]ObAUE: When I was a child, we pronounced "caramel" with two syllables, as "karr-mel". Does this survive? (I switched to "car-a-mel" many years ago, but my mind's ear refuses to hear that form coupled with "apple".)[/nq]
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