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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishIn fact, I disagree with almost all of your criticisms. If you can cite just one reference that su...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishAnd Kalleh your manners are charming and your modesty rather disarming. But the way you've embraced ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishVery good use of words, especially our new "minging" discovery. I still think it would read better i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI have seen plenty of poems (including Limericks) whose initial line letters are not capitalised and...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishIt's not too difficult to compose a Limerick even one which incorporates the name of a given person....... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishDeduct 30 and halve the remainder. 70 degrees F minus 30 is 40, divide by 2 is 20. So, it's 1.1 degr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishApologies again for the careless use of language. The mark in the sentence above was supposed to be...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI do not agree. I consider that capitals belong at the begining of sentences and proper nouns. I do...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Limericks Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishIt's true, said Kalleh, what they say about beer in the U S of A. I once drunk Budweiser (now I'm sa...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishSo I did! I wondered why it wasn't as close as it should have been! Nevertheless I stick by my form...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishTo convert easily from centigrade to Fahrenheit, double the centigrade figure and add 30. So 20 degr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri The verb "to suck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishI am aware of the vulgar origins of this term when used in the sense "American beer sucks", and thus...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI rest my case in my defence of Oxford! Richard English... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI have certainly never seen a source that suggests this! The difference between the "to draw a concl...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishOf course, when one visits an area and begins to associate with the locals (one of the great virtues...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Favorite words? (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishHow can you speak of Fuller's 1845 - a beer of amazing strength and depth of flavour in the same pos...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Favorite words? (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishThe Courage Mega-Keggery in Reading has never made an ounce of beer in its entire existence. Courag...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Food for thought (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard EnglishThat has answered a question that has long puzzled me. I never could understand why Budweiser was so...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Punctuation and quotation marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishIt is, in fact a US versus UK difference at this level. In the UK, even now, the people who are mos...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Riddles in Rhyme II (in The Written Word) by Richard EnglishI do not, I confess, enjoy cryptic clues and have never finished "The Times" crossword. I suspect i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word | » Refine Search » New Search |
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