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Discussion Topic  RE: Water, water everywhere (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A weir is an old English word that means either a dam or a compound created in a stream to trap fish......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On a car it's a hood; on a head it's a hat. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ridiculous Notice (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Why the complexity? What's wrong with "Please use the other door"? Why explain? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
For exactly the same reason that the British say "petrol" and the Americans say "gasoline"! Or that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A grammar question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The COED lists it but suggests its use is jocular. Certainly we would not use it in formal speech in......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
So the Americans don't understand irony? How very ironic! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes. It has an electric starter, just like a car. They are geared to run at a higher speed, of cours......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this magic?? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Misplaced modifiers are always good for a laugh! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A turbo-jet is the normal type of jet engine where the incoming air is compressed by a turbine, mixe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another Wikipedia question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In 1938 the British government introduced the Holidays With Pay Act which meant that all workers wer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I only make this point if it's true! After all, the Americans invented quite a lot as well - the sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Gas or steam turbines are what comes to my mind. Parsons (a Brit) invented the steam turbine; Whittl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Iteration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Not in my edition (1995) although I really ought get a newer one. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: And finally, one for the Brits (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
When I first spoke to a person at our head office which had just been established in Colne (Lancashi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another Wikipedia question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
And of course, Americans wouldn't talk about two weeks' holiday either. It would be two weeks' vacat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Iteration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree it's in the full OED but I generally use the concise. Even in the full OED the word is shown......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English for Americans (in Potpourri) by Richard English
But what does a Scotsman wear under his kilt? I asked one once, "...Is anything worn under your kil......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Seeing wood (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suppose she wanted something to cover her boobs... Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Iteration (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Acording to the OED, iterate means to repeat or state repeatedly (from the Latin, iterare itself fro......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Google™ words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I get no end of people 'phoning me to say that they can improve my position on the search engine lis......
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