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By: Randy

Ken, try the following google: "head to home" -Depot The minus sign in front of a word searches for sites that do not contain that word.

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By: Simon Cauchi

@GKP: _Pace_ borrowed (I think) from Italian. No, from Latin. The common pronunciation is Italianate, like Church Latin. However, my dictionary gives two pronunciations, the Italianate one and also as...

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By: Saif

English place names make liberal use of latin preporsitions: cum, juxta, super…

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By: speedwell

A better-targeted Google search would be: "head to home" -"home depot" Yes, Google can cope with this. Specifically, it's asking Google, "find all the pages where the phrase "head to home" occurs but...

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By: speedwell

What? I just found a ticket on my Internet surfboard for "exceptionally inept use of quotation marks," bummer.

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By: Aaron Davies

@j. w. brewer: perhaps a clipping of "excluding" instead?

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By: Aaron Davies

@merri: Romanes eunt domus!

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By: Simon Cauchi

@Aaron: You've got a mistake in every word. Make it: Romani ite domum.

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By: Faldone

@Simon See The Life of Brian. The scene is a member of one of the anti-Roman groups scrawling the phrase Aaron quoted on a wall and being upbraided by a roman soldier for his atrocious grammar.

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By: John Cowan

But that's not what John Cowan said. Here's what he wrote: "I think the mathematicians caught the jargon use of modulo from the computer hackers, though admittedly in many cases these were one and the...

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By: Simon Cauchi

@Faldone: Thanks for reminding me. I did once see The Life of Brian, and enjoyed it, but had forgotten that episode.

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By: Jens Fiederer

New? "Post meridian" seems to me to have been in use for a LONG time, although usually abbreviated.

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By: SA

I see "post" as a preposition all the time, from Asian stock research analysts. It's very much jargon. I think they use it just because it's shorthand and they don't want to write "after" or "following."

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By: Preston

I have been trying to use post as a new favorite preposition. but just used prior to a noun instead of a sentence. such as post Christmas, post holidays, I would still use "after" before a sentence,...

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By: DD Whyte

"Post Watergate" political changes is the first time I can think of this coming into extensive use as a preposition….

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By: Treesong

I didn't see anyone answer J.W. Brewer, so just for the record: 'a' is a preposition in phrases like 'ten cents a [per] dance' or 'eight days a week'.

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