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Mermaid infiltration style? Colour me also more than slightly intrigued by this idea of being from the "actual Mid-Atlantic"- which was an ocean last time anybody checked.
I think "Mid-Atlantic" in this case refers to the accents commonly found from Delaware and Maryland south to the northern parts of North Carolina.
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Key word: prefers . The grandparent comment is framing this as "that word is wrong , because in the context I've encountered it in, we used this other, right , word". When, assuredly meeting whatever measure you might use to qualify this besides the GP poster's personal experience (... though they do seem to recognize its meaning well enough), "mid-atlantic accent" and "trans-atlantic accent" are synonyms. ---- Like,…
You're right, I was way too absolutist there. Edited. You still shouldn't cite wikipedia!
Wikipedia is where lots of good cites are collected; quote any single one of them and you get only that single one. Quote the Wikipedia page and you get all of them. What's wrong with people, unable to click through to those further cites? (Mouse broken exactly as the WP page opened, or what?) Judging from the "Even the first WP cite prefers..." comment above you seem to have managed it, so I really can't see what the problem with citing Wikipedia is supposed to be.
Is it OK to quote the Britannica? If not, why not? If yes, then why not Wikipedia too?
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Or Atlas obscurae?
How is that supposed to parse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#First_and_sec... gives the declension for adjectives such as obscurus. I think the web site gets it wrong because of "camera obscura" (Latin for "dark room"). Camera (modern French: "la chambre") is feminine so takes the feminine form of the adjective.
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How is that supposed to parse? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#First_and_sec... gives the declension for adjectives such as obscurus. I think the web site gets it wrong because of "camera obscura" (Latin for "dark room"). Camera (modern French: "la chambre") is feminine so takes the feminine form of the adjective.
I think it's not the Atlas that is obscure/dark, but rather an Atlas of darkness.