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Discussion Topic  RE: More Phrases from French (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
Actually, you meant voilà. A viola is a large sized violin. Voici and voilà come from vois ici (see......
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Discussion Topic  Who/whom shall/will should/would (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
Have all of these alternatives all but disappeared? I must confess I see ‘who’ and mentally correct......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oddly-birthed geographical names (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
I don't know about the kangaroo, but I did hear that budgerigar means "good to eat"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brittany Spears and Beer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
It's the British use of irony that really needs understanding ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A vegeWHATian? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
When you said vegetarian children, presumably you didn't mean vegan, and I'd be very surprised if co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A vegeWHATian? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
ISTM that the only hard-and-fast spellings are: CD Compact Disc DVD Digital Versatile Disc floppy d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brittany Spears and Beer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: A vegeWHATian? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lint (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lint (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
No, really? It's as stupid as the coinage of "herstory" in the belief that "history" was a male-dom......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brittany Spears and Beer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
Hey, Bob, you don't think you should put a nice big tagline in as a sig file, do you? ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's it called ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
You're both right. The viaduct was the road above; the underpass or subway was what you used....
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Discussion Topic  RE: the @ sign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
"Unsettling"? Look around you, for goodness' sake! You have more access to the US mind-set than I.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: the @ sign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
Well, it worked all right here, again. I haven't got a clue, honestly....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Where do you get your hair done? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
OED says, somewhat unsurprisingly, that it comes from F. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: the @ sign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
Commercial at. Its origin is French; imagine writing 'à' (the French for "at") without removing you......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Signs of the times (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
Actually, they're correctly referred to in typesetting as full points and exclamation points. The q......
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