Comments on: micropolitans http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/micropolitans/ A blog mostly about language Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Truncated lame duck « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/micropolitans/#comment-41838 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:03:39 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11848#comment-41838 [...] by truncation”, like micropolitan/metropolitan for micropolitan/metropolitan area (here) and primary for primary care physician (here), but sometimes the source is a N + N compound, like [...]

]]> By: This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Political speech, feck, Shakespeare, and more | Wordnik http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/micropolitans/#comment-37594 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:47:25 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11848#comment-37594 [...] Yiddish word that comes from a root meaning ‘to bore, to pester.’” Arnold Zwicky posted about micropolitans, “cities [that] do not have the economic or political importance of large cities, but are [...]

]]> By: Dream works « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/micropolitans/#comment-37004 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:43:35 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11848#comment-37004 [...] a recent posting, I wrote about a vivid long-running dream I’d had, a murder mystery (never solved) involving [...]

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