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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: 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: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2 (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
The meaning hasn't spread as far as OED2 yet, but I know what you mean. Modern-day bizspeak....
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: More Phrases from French (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quotations (in The Written Word) by the_bear
A Cockney neologism is to rabbit, which basically means to chatter incessantly. Although ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Foreign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
I know we in Europe tend to be lazy and call the USA America, when it in truth refers to the whole o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Swifties (in Wordplay) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Iraq words" - Q without U (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
J and K, I presume. Stephen....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Swifties (in Wordplay) by the_bear
"...and then I fell off my bicycle," said she, carelessly. "We could do with another Gothic doorway......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tuchman's "The First Salute" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tuchman's "The First Salute" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Iraq words" - Q without U (in The Vocabulary Forum) by the_bear
The British title "Warden of the Cinq Ports" although it's obviously French. qhat: what qheche: whi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mnemonics (in Potpourri) by the_bear
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Discussion Topic  RE: Hood (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
I heard that hooligan was of Irish derivation. OED2 says: "hooligan. "Origin unascertained. The wor......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Small Read (in The Written Word) by the_bear
My own particular favourite book, and one which changed my life was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bumboat (in Questions & Answers about Words) by the_bear
Aye, Little Buttercup – and well called – for you're the rosiest, the roundest, and the reddest beau......
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