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There is much you have not been told.

But I wish to hear more about the OED model. Would you be kind enough to spell it out. Just a little.

Shucks. I'm just making this up as I go along.

However; what I do know is this: The ancient ...

Not without entering a parallel universe. There are (literally) hundreds of people who have contributed entries to the OED. Were they are all in on the secret?

Of course not. But that's not how you ...

In THOBR I claimed most entries in the OED are wrong because of faulty etymological assumptions.

We might want to consider the possibility that the errors were deliberate.

Is Arabic a Social Construct?
https://sjquillen.medium.com/is-arabic-a-social-construct-dabf514e5ce2

Found this interesting:

Arabs denigrate their own languages of hearth and home as al-ammiya ...

Cricket is (up to recent times) a man's game.
Baseball is a variant of a family game that involves women and children. This game the English refer to commonly as Rounders.

One of these games, Cric ...

I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood (aka Little Red Cap) and wondered if a red hood being eaten and vomited could have originated from wolves ingesting fly agaric,

Oh my god Hatty. So bril ...

In The Megalithic Empire we make occasional reference to salvia (sage in English) without ever discovering what it is -- or was in ye ancient times. This little story from today's medium.com suggests ...

Can someone tell me the differences between British Criket and Indian Criket?

The reason I asked this question is as follows.

The British controlled India from 1757 to 1947. Presumably some vers ...

only the one I sent to Graham Hancock's website (quite why I still don't know) had any lasting effect. And then only because you were the editor.

I've been riding around Tanzania on a motorbike. I ...

I've been riding a motorbike around Tanzania and have been away from the boards more than usual. However; I've had some thoughts while riding (and indeed have made some observations I intend to share ...

This is a real discovery. My provisional assessment is that he never existed but is a vehicle for other people's chicanery. There might be a real Simons d'Ewes, an obscure backbencher by the sound of ...

Stop badgering me about my trip to the London Stadium to watch West Ham vs Arsenal. I will tell you in my own time and in my own way. The first weird event was arriving on the sparsely attended eastbo ...

Soon you'll catch up with me on Pitt the Younger.

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Topic: Questions Of The Day
Ishmael Replies: 3480 Views: 401166	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:55 pm Subject: Questions Of The Day
Ishmael Replies: 3480 Views: 401166	There is much you have not been told.
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 3:08 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	But I wish to hear more about the OED model. Would you be kind enough to spell it out. Just a little. Shucks. I'm just making this up as I go along. However; what I do know is this: The ancient ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 1:39 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Not without entering a parallel universe. There are (literally) hundreds of people who have contributed entries to the OED. Were they are all in on the secret? Of course not. But that's not how you ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:49 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	In THOBR I claimed most entries in the OED are wrong because of faulty etymological assumptions. We might want to consider the possibility that the errors were deliberate.
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:48 am Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Is Arabic a Social Construct? https://sjquillen.medium.com/is-arabic-a-social-construct-dabf514e5ce2 Found this interesting: Arabs denigrate their own languages of hearth and home as al-ammiya ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:48 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Cricket is (up to recent times) a man's game. Baseball is a variant of a family game that involves women and children. This game the English refer to commonly as Rounders. One of these games, Cric ...
Topic: Crying Wolf
Ishmael Replies: 817 Views: 215180	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 11:44 pm Subject: Crying Wolf
Ishmael Replies: 817 Views: 215180	I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood (aka Little Red Cap) and wondered if a red hood being eaten and vomited could have originated from wolves ingesting fly agaric, Oh my god Hatty. So bril ...
Topic: Mega-Talk
Ishmael Replies: 742 Views: 158084	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 11:42 pm Subject: Mega-Talk
Ishmael Replies: 742 Views: 158084	In The Megalithic Empire we make occasional reference to salvia (sage in English) without ever discovering what it is -- or was in ye ancient times. This little story from today's medium.com suggests ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:27 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Can someone tell me the differences between British Criket and Indian Criket? The reason I asked this question is as follows. The British controlled India from 1757 to 1947. Presumably some vers ...
Topic: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 127879	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 9:40 pm Subject: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 127879	only the one I sent to Graham Hancock's website (quite why I still don't know) had any lasting effect. And then only because you were the editor. I've been riding around Tanzania on a motorbike. I ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:37 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	I've been riding a motorbike around Tanzania and have been away from the boards more than usual. However; I've had some thoughts while riding (and indeed have made some observations I intend to share ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:17 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 718 Views: 191704	Yay!
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Ishmael Replies: 2437 Views: 414464	Forum: British History Posted: 8:38 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Ishmael Replies: 2437 Views: 414464	This is a real discovery. My provisional assessment is that he never existed but is a vehicle for other people's chicanery. There might be a real Simons d'Ewes, an obscure backbencher by the sound of ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:28 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2799 Views: 338080	Stop badgering me about my trip to the London Stadium to watch West Ham vs Arsenal. I will tell you in my own time and in my own way. The first weird event was arriving on the sparsely attended eastbo ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Ishmael Replies: 286 Views: 101174	Forum: History Posted: 7:30 pm Subject: All Things Roman
Ishmael Replies: 286 Views: 101174	Soon you'll catch up with me on Pitt the Younger.