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Cutting remarks from The Guardian
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December 03, 2021 05:58
It's groaning time
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1. Dad, are we pyromaniacs? Yes, we arson. 2. Writing my name in cursive is my signature move 3 Wh......
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November 18, 2021 06:13
Getting beyond a joke.
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I thought I was joking when I said "The Omega variant" had a terribly apocalyptic sound to it. Not t......
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November 27, 2021 15:09
Sometimes...
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BobHale
Sometimes in class it's impossible not to laugh and then equally impossible to explain to a bewilder......
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November 13, 2021 19:12
Chinese Penguins
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shufitz
An odd tidbit of information: in Mandarin Chinese, the word for penguin literally means “business go......
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November 13, 2021 20:04
Les Anglo Saxons
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October 31, 2021 09:34
How's this for logic?
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Geoff
On NPR today I heard a farmer being interviewed about how climate change will impact farming. The f......
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November 14, 2021 14:31
I had to read that twice.
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Saw this on FB. He reunited with Ron Howard years later for the movie Willow and played the memora......
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November 12, 2021 22:00
Poetry in the Law
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I found this on the web: ......
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November 11, 2021 16:10
Bluffing Game: OBNUBILATED
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September 19, 2021 17:33
Chinese Penguins
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shufitz
An odd tidbit of information: in Mandarin Chinese, the word for penguin literally means “business go......
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November 13, 2021 18:25
Ain’t English spelling wonderful?
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If an S and an I and an O and a U With an X at the end spell Su; And an E and a Y and an E spell I, ......
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October 15, 2021 20:51
What do you think of the word "rigor?"
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There was an article a few days ago in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the word ......
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September 27, 2021 20:18
A question of nuance for my American friends.
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BobHale
I have been asked by a Chinese friend about how to reply to the question "Are you ready?" Specifical......
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October 23, 2021 04:23
SARDINIA LIMERICKS: VOTE
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1. On my tour of the Island Sardinia I don't know where to begin here. I’m of two minds, I find That......
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October 08, 2021 04:30
Groan
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BobHale
You really don't need to see the picture for this internet meme so I won't send any traffic to the l......
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September 25, 2021 18:39
A pointless proliferation of nonsensical nomenclature
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I post daily on FB with links to various music from my collection and commented on this morning's po......
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September 29, 2021 22:03
Here we go again...
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September 30, 2021 13:44
Alice revisited
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BobHale
I just posted this on FB but for those of you who don't use it I thought I would repost it here. W......
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October 04, 2021 19:16
Adultery not moving with the times
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Although same sex marriages are now legal it seems that, under UK law at least, adultery hasn't kept......
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September 28, 2021 02:23
Why did language develop adverbs?
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Prompted by a comment elsewhere I started to wonder why we need different adjective and adverb forms......
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September 02, 2021 17:24
A COVID Limerick
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[Note: the English city of Worcester (think of Worcestershire sauce) is pronounced “Wooster” (rhymes......
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September 28, 2021 18:36
LIMERICK GAME: Sardinia
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OK, this should elicit some high jinks! PM me your limericks for ......
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September 18, 2021 14:05
Sometimes I despair about the intelligence of the general public
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The game show Pointless is one of those where 100 members of the public are asked a question. In thi......
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September 24, 2021 19:00
Now that’s impressive
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I have just seen a Facebook post that misspells the word “I”....
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September 19, 2021 00:38
Accurate language can mislead too.
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The British Government says that insufficient winter fuel supplies is "not a cause for immediate con......
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September 19, 2021 20:14
Wise Words About Reading
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September 06, 2021 12:00
Some use of the words "starring" and "star of" that I am not familiar with.
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I clicked on a link about a missing actress who was said to be "starring" in Doctor Who. I subsequen......
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September 14, 2021 22:08
Fastuous answers
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I declare myself the winner as nobody got the right answer, obviously a well-chosen word. The right......
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September 16, 2021 20:37
It's Weinan, man - all the limericks for your contemplation
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I have included all the limericks received including the ones with the various wrong pronunciations.......
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September 04, 2021 20:12
Why don't they know what they're talking about?
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It's bad enough when TV shows refer to fired cartridge cases as "spent shell casings," but it goes t......
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August 04, 2021 14:28
The answer to one of my many peeves
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Among my many rants, I've grumped about the illogic of calling a modified version of rugby "football......
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August 19, 2021 06:36
WEINAN AND FASTUOUS
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BobHale
Pay attention there at the back. I now have eight definitions of FASTUOUS from four people. It's en......
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August 29, 2021 21:42
Fastuous definitions
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BobHale
Lots of very brief and to the point entries this time round. 1.starving 2.obsessive 3.arrogant, h......
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September 04, 2021 20:39
A poem titled “Punctuation”
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shufitz
Punctuation Greed My life is full, indeed, of gloom. I’ve naught, you see; just this small room. I......
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August 17, 2021 19:28
Poetic Parody
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I love a parody, especially on beloved poems that don’t deserve it. Here’s my take on “I heard a fly......
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November 29, 2019 08:23
cornérisation
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A friend of mine who liv es and teaches English in Paris asked: "In French, when a hypermarket invi......
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August 26, 2021 09:57
Limerick Game: Weinan
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BobHale
First the pronunciation guide: It should properly be WAY nan but as that might prove tricky to rhym......
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August 14, 2021 06:27
How 'Woke' Became an Insult
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I completely forgot to send you all this ......
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August 23, 2021 05:42
Bluffing Game: Fastuous
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I am always a bit worried that a word might only be new to me but here goes FASTUOUS (Note - NOT FA......
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August 12, 2021 07:48
Limerick game - Fife, Washington
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Ok, I'm thinking of a small town just north of Tacoma, ......
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June 19, 2021 16:25
Can we talk about "new" pronouns?
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OK, first off I apologize for being away from this discussion board for so long. I've had my hands f......
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May 12, 2021 17:47
PINTADINE revealed
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Nearly six weeks since there's been any activity on PINTADINE and so I'll terminate the study here a......
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June 18, 2021 17:37
As if the sexual alphabet soup weren't confusing enough already...
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Geoff
Now we're got "Demisexual!" Good grief....
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July 15, 2021 15:31
The Importance of Punctuation
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July 09, 2021 21:41
Queer
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Kalleh
We have talked about the word "queer" a bit on WC back in 2006 and then 2010, but it is 11 years lat......
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July 09, 2021 20:17
Is this sentence grammatical?
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The New York Times wrote, "The use of defamation suits has also raised questions about how to police......
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February 07, 2021 07:36
No problem...
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Kalleh
What are your thoughts about people using "no problem" instead of "thank you." Someone complained a......
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January 16, 2016 10:13
The abnormal normal
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When and why did "normalcy" replace "normality" as the preferred term for being normal? I now see i......
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July 18, 2021 07:16
The first English sentence
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Kalleh
I can't take credit for this - it is all Shu's finding, but so interesting! The first recorded ......
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June 16, 2021 20:07
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