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RE: Favorite words?
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Quote. "...All they talk about in our Board meetings is 'drivel'"!..." Tell the Chair that if they......
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December 04, 2002 10:35
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It is an unspoken concensus amongst apostrophe lovers that people who use the word "it's" as the pos......
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December 01, 2002 22:42
RE: Wives
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Quote: "This speaks for itself" Only barely to me - what language is it? Richard English...
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December 01, 2002 08:53
RE: Wives
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Quote "...If the wireless is broken, do you crank up the Victrola?..." Not in the UK. The expressi......
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November 30, 2002 12:32
RE: Wives
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Men from the North of England have a reputation for treating their womenfolk in an "old-fashioned" w......
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November 30, 2002 03:53
RE: Gossip
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According to the OED "gossip" did have an earlier meaning of Godparent, from the old English "godsib......
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November 28, 2002 09:33
RE: Wives
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OED Definition 4. Coming together, meeting. I submit, a wholly appropriate term for sexual union. ......
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November 28, 2002 09:29
RE: Wives
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"On the subject of "sleep with", if we eliminate euphemisms we are left with the problem that there ......
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November 27, 2002 08:05
RE: Wives
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I dislike euphemisms as a rule since they do little to disguise the actual meaning of the term which......
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November 27, 2002 01:18
RE: Oxymorons
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I don't know that this is an oxymoron. It is usually used to describe a person who, although lacking......
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November 24, 2002 22:19
RE: Educating kids about words
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You can't be "...a titch negative..." - that's like saying that you're "...a small negative...". Y......
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November 19, 2002 13:57
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I set an examination once for Travel Agents where one of the questions asked them to calculate earni......
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November 18, 2002 01:27
RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese!
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I didn't suggest Spanish since this phrase is not, of course, a true rhyme. "...pasa..." does not rh......
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November 18, 2002 01:23
RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese!
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I can't help with the butterfly, but did you know that if you said, in French, "To the water it is t......
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November 16, 2002 12:11
RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese!
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"Bon voyage, fromage" is, of course, French. Richard English...
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November 15, 2002 12:10
RE: I'm a literalist...
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Simply to be awkward I ferquently treat teenage slang expressions literally. The current favourite,......
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November 13, 2002 23:17
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It was, in fat, rare for Tom Lehrer to try to force a rhyme. Most of his lyrics scan and rhyme perfe......
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November 13, 2002 23:10
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Cockney rhyming slang, like all living languages (in other words, unlike French!), is developing and......
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November 10, 2002 02:31
Less and Fewer - a new slant in "The Times"
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An article recently appeared in The Times whose author was trying to make the point that the disctin......
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November 07, 2002 12:13
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"Quad bike" Richard English...
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