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Discussion Topic  RE: Made up etymologies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I think it was just something someone had posted on Wiki Answers in response to the same question....
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Discussion Topic  RE: True, funny stories (in Wordplay) by BobHale
Keeping it language related, I've never forgotten something from school when I was about twelve or t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I can give a very easy example from my own dialect. The negative form of "did" that is commonly hea......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I don't doubt for a moment that language change is happening and that dialect change is part of that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Horsemeat (in The Written Word) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  Made up etymologies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I've seen some daft proposed etymologies in my time but this one takes the biscuit. I wrote a limer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by BobHale
You're gonna have to tell me what the capillo-vaginal epithet actually was as I can't read blogger b......
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Discussion Topic  apposition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I have been trying to explain some things about apposition to one of my private students in response......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Horsemeat (in The Written Word) by BobHale
Given that the suppliers don't even care to adhere to the requirement that beef comes from a cow, ho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Before trying to work out why there is an homogenisation of local accents, I'd want to see some evid......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Horsemeat (in The Written Word) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limerick Game: Box Hill (in Wordplay) by BobHale
Your son is 135? Good heavens! How old are you? (I am however pretty sure the Bee Gees were around ......
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Discussion Topic  Horsemeat (in The Written Word) by BobHale
I don't know how much of the current "horsemeat-in-the-burgers" story you have seen over in the US b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
The rule is that every contributer writes in his own dialect and that if they say it's right then it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
The prblem that was raised with here/tear(noun)/disappear seemed to be that there was a rhotic r in ......
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Discussion Topic  Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I've recently been banging out a fair few new limericks for the OEDILF and in the process been both ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing Game: Gaffer (in Wordplay) by BobHale
I'll try 7, for want of a better guess. They all sound plausible to me... even mine....
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Discussion Topic  Headlines (in The Written Word) by BobHale
A headline on Yahoo today reads "Cat with only two right legs" How many right legs did they expect......
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