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Jeffrey Kafer
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 Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject: how do you say "hitherto" |
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Seriously, I don't think I've ever actually uttered the word "hitherto".
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Diane Havens
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Just as it looks -- hither (rhymes with wither) and 2.
I use it all the time! 
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Frank F
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Listen here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hitherto
Definded as:
hith⋅er⋅to
–adverb
1. up to this time; until now: a fact hitherto unknown.
2. to here.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME hiderto. See hither, to
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Lee Gordon
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:34 am Post subject: |
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So, in other words, you had hitherto never used the word "hitherto."
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Diane Havens
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Yes -- the talking dictionaries simplified life quite a bit. When I first started teaching, I had to teach my English students to decipher the arcane diacritics and phonetic symbology of the dictionary. It was a happy day for all of us when the talking dictionaries arrived on the scene -- second only to the death of the archaic card catalog in the library.
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Bruce
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| Diane Havens wrote: | | ... I had to teach my English students to decipher the arcane diacritics and phonetic symbology of the dictionary. .... |
OH MY GOD. Have you seen the pronunciation symbols they're using on Wikipedia these days? Their pronunciations are totally un-understandable. Do we really need a new system that uses Greek and Calculus symbols? They're nuts.
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