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martle
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« Reply #720 on: 17:27:19, 31-08-2008 »
Oh oh.

Quick, leg it!
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #721 on: 17:33:47, 31-08-2008 »
Indeed I should, I have a Mouvement to perform.
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« Reply #722 on: 17:40:16, 31-08-2008 »
Quote from: martle on 17:27:19, 31-08-2008
Oh oh.

Quick, leg it!





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« Reply #723 on: 18:56:29, 31-08-2008 »
What should I say to refer to the music I've written besides 'my music' ? Is that not an acceptable shorthand for 'the music I've written' ?

If not, what should I say to refer to the music I've written?
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« Reply #724 on: 13:50:29, 05-09-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 18:56:29, 31-08-2008
Is that not
Yes.

No? (Says who?)

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« Reply #725 on: 04:51:15, 07-09-2008 »
There wasn't a lot of people there?

or

There weren't a lot of people there?

I always hear the latter. But lot is a singular word is not it?
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« Reply #726 on: 05:57:38, 07-09-2008 »
Not a lot of people knows that?

Till there was were you???
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« Reply #727 on: 06:09:02, 03-10-2008 »
One last thing: retching is in the OED, it has a different meaning than wretching.
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1548 ELYOT, Excreo, to spette out with retchyng. 1607 TOPSELL Four-f. Beasts (1658) 401 The same medicine..is very profitable for those which are troubled with a..bloudy spitting out with retching. 1623 COCKERAM 1, Excreation, a retching or spitting out. 1704 F. FULLER Med. Gymn. (1718) 6 Sneezing; to which frequently is join'd Gauping or Retching. 1776 Phil. Trans. LXVI. 547 The symptoms..were universal lassitude and weakness, followed by a retching. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 540 He had also nausea and retching, violent head-ach. 1845 BUDD Dis. Liver 295 The water abates the severity of the retching. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 84 A feeling of nausea..often going on to violent retching.

EDIT: wretching does not appear in the OED at all.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #728 on: 07:24:47, 03-10-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 06:09:02, 03-10-2008
One last thing: retching is in the OED, it has a different meaning than wretching.
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1548 ELYOT, Excreo, to spette out with retchyng. 1607 TOPSELL Four-f. Beasts (1658) 401 The same medicine..is very profitable for those which are troubled with a..bloudy spitting out with retching. 1623 COCKERAM 1, Excreation, a retching or spitting out. 1704 F. FULLER Med. Gymn. (1718) 6 Sneezing; to which frequently is join'd Gauping or Retching. 1776 Phil. Trans. LXVI. 547 The symptoms..were universal lassitude and weakness, followed by a retching. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 540 He had also nausea and retching, violent head-ach. 1845 BUDD Dis. Liver 295 The water abates the severity of the retching. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 84 A feeling of nausea..often going on to violent retching.

EDIT: wretching does not appear in the OED at all.  Roll Eyes

Hooray!  I've just seen this one.  So it's not just me then.  I've certainly never heard of "wretching"!  Grin (and I didn't need to look it up.)
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« Reply #729 on: 23:55:52, 03-10-2008 »
Closest I could find to amicile:
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amical, a.
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Now rare

({sm}æm{shti}k{schwa}l)  [a. Fr. amical, ad. L. am{imac}c{amac}l-is (rare in cl., frequent in med.L.), f. am{imac}c-us friend: see -AL1. Cf. inimical.]

    Friendly.
1652 GAULE Magastrom. 86 Planets amicall, benevolous, auspicious. 1691 W. WATSON (title) An Amical Call to Repentance, etc. 1789 H. L. PIOZZI Observ. & Refl. I. 373 This pretty animal's amical disposition towards man. 1794 {emem} Brit. Synon. I. 26 Amical..is very lately come very much into favour, and one hears it now perpetually in fashionable and literary circles. [1814 W. TAYLOR in Month. Mag. XXXVII. 118 Amicable..appears to have been originally either an impure word for amical, or a misprint for amiable.] 1832 F. BURNEY Mem. Dr. Burney III. 132 In his amical career, he still possessed Mr. Twining. 1891 ‘Q’ Blue Pav. iv. 66 His conscience led him to exchange this country..for a soil more amical to his religious opinions.

    Hence ami{sm}cality, friendliness. rare{em}1.

No go on "amicile", though I did find this:

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domicile, n.
   SECOND EDITION 1989 

({sm}d{rfa}m{shti}s{shti}l, -sa{shti}l)  Also 6-7 -cill(e, 7-9 -cil. [a. F. domicile (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. domicili-um habitation, dwelling, deriv. of domus house.]

    1. A place of residence or ordinary habitation; a dwelling-place, abode; a house or home. Also transf. the dwelling-place of an animal, and fig.
c1477 CAXTON Jason 36 Thalyaunce of my frende and of my domycille. 1549 Compl. Scot. Epist. 7 Fureous mars, that hes violently ocupeit the domicillis of tranquil pace. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 55 Take..the whytest snayles, with their domicills. 1605 BACON Adv. Learn. II. iii. §4 That part of learning which answereth to one of the cells, domiciles, or offices of the understanding; which is that of the memory. 1794 SIR W. JONES Ord. Menu vi. 43 Let him have no culinary fire, no domicil. 1847 LEWES Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 188 That a Tub could suffice for a domicile we may guess from Aristophanes. 1871 R. ELLIS Catullus lxiii. 53 To be with the snows, the wild beasts, in a wintery domicile.
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« Reply #730 on: 13:15:22, 04-10-2008 »
Quote from: Turfan Fragment on 18:56:29, 31-08-2008
What should I say to refer to the music I've written besides 'my music' ? Is that not an acceptable shorthand for 'the music I've written' ?

If not, what should I say to refer to the music I've written?

How about "my compositions"?
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« Reply #731 on: 13:22:21, 04-10-2008 »
Turfwerke ?
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« Reply #732 on: 13:57:25, 11-10-2008 »
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 10:34:04, 11-10-2008
footpedal
Otherwise known as a 'pedal'. Wink
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« Reply #733 on: 14:01:08, 11-10-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 13:57:25, 11-10-2008
Quote from: harmonyharmony on 10:34:04, 11-10-2008
footpedal
Otherwise known as a 'pedal'. Wink
Well, you say that, member Sudden, but you will not be unaware that in musical terminology there is at least one other possible meaning of the word "pedal" which is not necessarily connected to feet. I grant you that one would have to work hard to contrive a context where the two might be confused, but this is after all the Pedantry thread.
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« Reply #734 on: 15:16:50, 11-10-2008 »
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