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| All Good Things... (in Potpourri) by haberdasher (I decided I had posted this in the wrong thread, wo I moved it here.) I had not known that the Cap...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri hän (in The Written Word) by KallehIn other threads, we've been talking about gender neutral pronouns. I just learned that in Finnish ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word You be the judge... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehHere is the sentence phrase: "Of the available data, most focuses solely on medication errors..." ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Song Parodies? (in Word Games) by bethree5I do love me a good song parody. Probably not a good idea for us, as they sting the best when they'r...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Word Games What's wrong with this ad? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffDoes Further now mean Farther? ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Limerick Game - Galena (in Wordplay) by KallehI am not sure what is happening to this game, but I am not letting it lie dormant any longer! Shu...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Improving on Lear (in Potpourri) by BobHaleEdward Lear was of course a wonderful composer of nonsense verse but let's face it, his limericks ar...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Discount (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThanks to government policies lots of people in the Uk are facing huge rises in heating bills that t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri NY Times excerpt puzzles me (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffFrom the NY Times: "Given these patterns, it seems obvious that older Americans should be more fear...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Gorey limericks (in Wordplay) by haberdasherI owe y'all all one. (Actually I owe y'all all two, but here's one at a time) - - - - - - ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Gotterdammerung (in The Written Word) by KallehA retired ICU physician, Cory Franklin, at Cook County Hospital in Chicago writes a fairly regular c...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word QI (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThe latest episode of QI features a LOT of language related stuff. You can find it ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri I know we discussed it before but (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOver at that FB group that my old teacher started they are currently decrying the use of "due to" in...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Well !!! (in Potpourri) by BobHaleYou know those annoying ads that pop up during YouTube videos? I just had one guaranteeing "Perfect ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Remember the "zebra" controversy? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThe few of you still around will certainly remember the furore on the board about the "Mr Ed was a Z...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri From my favourite movies podcast (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnother podcast that I listen to is the Kermode and Mayo film review podcast (which incorporates the...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri The Colbert Questionnaire (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI don’t know if anyone here watches Colbert but he sometimes has a weird interview technique he call...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A silly question (in Wordplay) by GeoffIf you're engaged in a wild Dionysian orgy and don't care about anyone else are you dithyrambunction...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Mx? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by KallehApparently the surname when you don't know the sex of someone is Mx. "Dear Mx." Have you heard it?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Recipe (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI was looking for recipes for onion bhaji (I know how to make them, it couldn't be easier, but I wan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Same meaning? Sensible objection? Or am I right? (in The Written Word) by BobHaleThere is a FB group, run by my old English teacher, that I joined purely in a spirit of bringing bal...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Nostalgia (in Potpourri) by BobHaleGoing through all those old posts has made me feel quite nostalgic. Of course this modern nostalgia ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri From a story Story Set on December 27 (part 1) (in The Vocabulary Forum) by wordcrafterToday, two days after Christmas, it seems apt to take our theme from a tale that took place on this ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Just call me Nostradamus (in Potpourri) by BobHaleHere's a post I made in April 2007. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri How appropriate (in Potpourri) by BobHaleIn one of my old posts there was a mention of the Discworld Librarian who is, as I am sure you know,...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Sometimes singular "they" doesn't work (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWe have talked about the use of "they" as a singular pronoun many times and as I have often stated i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri An old joke but an apposite one (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI just saw a clip on YouTube of an American Senator saying people shouldn’t take the vaccine because...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Cousins (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAfter some recent comments here regarding family relationships I realised that although I have alway...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words When is Christmas? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by shufitzWe think of Christmas as December 25. But we also sing, "On the first day of Christmas", "On the sec...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words biscuits (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI thought that I’d do you a little quiz. A quiz about biscuits. Of course what I mean by a biscuit i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri He musta had hemorrhoids (in Potpourri) by GeoffFrom an on-line review of a local surgeon: Dr. ... was probably the kindest and most caring doctor ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Messes. Winston Churchill (in Potpourri) by shufitzHere's Winston Churchill's June 1899 letter to American author Winston Churchill: Mr. Winston Churc...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Something confuses me in A. A. Milne (in The Written Word) by shufitzI do love A. A.Milne‘s poetry for children, ever since I heard his ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Rhymezone peculiartity (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAs rhymezone is an American site I'll throw this one open to the floor. I wanted rhymes for "dirty"...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Dancing on the Edge of Impropriety (in Potpourri) by shufitzLet’s take ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Let's go Brandon (in Potpourri) by KallehI am behind the curve, it seems. Apparently a popular phrase for xxxk Biden is " ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleI just posted a sentence like this on FB. What word would you put in the gap? We or us? Both sound w...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Words of the Year (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI've been looking around at the words of the year and unsurprisingly a lot of them are about the pan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick destination: GORE (in Wordplay) by haberdasherAfter all, Halloween is tomorrow, yes? ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Headline from LBC (in The Written Word) by BobHaleNeo-Nazi jailed for plotting to kill Asian friend who he likened to a 'cockroach' I am not familiar...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Dancing on the Edge of Impropriety (in Potpourri) by shufitzLet’s take ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri When Gutenberg’s Printing Came to England (in Potpourri) by shufitz...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri a puzzle (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThis has nothing to do with language but I found it too interesting not to share. Twins Ronan and S...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri For Hanukkah (in Potpourri) by shufitzThis little Hanukkah story is absolutely precious. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri nibbling (in The Written Word) by KallehYou probably all knew this, but I just learned that ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Another terrible headline. (in The Written Word) by BobHaleDavid Fuller jailed for life after 'abusing 102 bodies in morgues aged 9 to 100. A terrible story b...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Wrong part of speech? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by GeoffI received a message from my health care provider with this headline: "Steps to Eating Healthy at H...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Well I didn't know that! (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThe things you find out while randomly browsing the internet! Apparently if someone has a food aller...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Some very small bits of humor (an atomic comic, not anatomic comic) (in Wordplay) by shufitzNever trust atoms. They make up everything. Two atoms are taking a walk, when one is suddenly start...... 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