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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Originally posted by Graham Nice: ... the name given to those of us on this side of the pond who und......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In fact, this is also a rather old-fashioned slang expression for sexual intercourse, so a girl who ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pet Peeves Part 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This is definitely becoming common in US writing but I think it is dangerous.The preposition has an ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verbiage (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree. Verbiage has negative connotations akin to pomposity, flummery, and bombast. Why not avoid......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Government in Action (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have cable TV and find it very useful. I watch Discovery, History and similar knowledge channels a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A limousine steak? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Not a originally a car as such but a style of car body. In the days when many manufacturers made onl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
And another thing. How did we manage not to die of thirst? Every teenager in England now carries a b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Animal words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Of course this doesn't work so well in the UK since Nash was talking about those animals that walk o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quotations (in The Written Word) by Richard English
With any form of slang it is possible to make such a claim since the language of slang is "unofficia......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quotations (in The Written Word) by Richard English
The cockney rhyming slang site mentioned above is very good. It is not, though, always accurate. Al......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A ___ from ___ (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Don't forget that many of us have our pictures on the community site, should you wish to dispel some......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Mothering Sunday is a very old religious festival that was not originally specifically to do with mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Since it is now a well-known fact that I am of an "uncertain age", let me reveal that, when I was yo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
When I lived in Maidstone we had Trolley Buses and I remember one occasion just after the War when w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oration: types of speechs (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Let us be thankful that is wasn't spelt "speech's"! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Goodbye" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Nine out of ten for effort. But it was Tommy Handley! Jimmy (no relation so far as I know) was als......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
My brother-in-Law is an actuary and has two children... Biro is a term well-understood in the UK a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Iraq words" - Q without U (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Thank you, I will. And it will not be canned, pasteurised, filetered, chilled to zero degrees centi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It's good to learn that, in one aspect of life at least, the USA was a far better country then than ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Iraq words" - Q without U (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
The OED has over 400 words (not all English but all used in English) that have a Q not followed with......
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