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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation and quotation marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Although they are cited as exceptions, in most sources they are shown as "permitted exceptions". I i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Am I a mutt? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It sounds to me as though it's a rotten style guide! Anything that is quoted verbatim should be enc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation and quotation marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
That seems fine to me - and I am actually presently drinking an excellent pint of Fuller's 1845 (sad......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Am I a mutt? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I Believe the style guide to be wrong. My usual question when trying to decide the order of punctua......
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Discussion Topic  More about beer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There is a US site, with a discussion board, that those who are interested in pursuing their newly-a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Am I a mutt? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There is a difference here between UK and US English, although, according to Oxford, the term has th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mythical Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Yes. It's a word that's commonly used, though and I suspect that it's here for the medium term, at l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mythical Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I agree that this is rather far from the purpose of this board so will not try to instigate an in-de......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mythical Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Shangri-La is supposedly in the Himalayas, near to Tibet. Chinese government restrictions permitting......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mythical Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
When I was travel agent I heard this phrase and others like it many times. Obviously it would have b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mythical Places (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...After the city in northwest Africa, in what is now Mali. Timbuktu was at one time a major ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: SNAFU (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Plenty! As Michael Quinion has observed more than once, words created from acroynyms are a relative......
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Discussion Topic  Honker's (in Potpourri) by Richard English
For the benefit of those living in the USA I am in a position to tell you that Goose Island Brewery ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suppose you could always use it to trap slugs and snails in the garden. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes, but the problem is that you'd have had to have drunk the beer! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It is an undoubted truism of humanity that want and necessity have but tenuous links. There are many......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This is one of the problems when measuring consumption. A Stein, to my mind, would be a litre glas......
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Discussion Topic  Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This week we have been receiving "severe weather" warnings which brought to my mind the differences ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
When I debated this subject originally I said I had yet to find any style book, US or UK, that sanct......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Did they define "a drink"? If they meant a half of beer then I binge drink at least once a week! If......
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