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Discussion Topic  RE: Language training (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Since it is a valid English construction to make an "object" noun from a "subject" noun by addding "......
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Discussion Topic  Language training (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yesterday I was visiting someone in hospital and, as one does, was idly looking at the notice boards......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gormless through the French Windows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In his immortal speech to the Oxford Union, Gerard Hoffnung reads out some supposed replies from Tyr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gormless through the French Windows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A gormless person is one who is rather stupid or ineffectual. Possibly one lacking in serious purpos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb answers to quiz show questions (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Not only logical but also correct. The sentence, with its exclamation mark, is quoted and thus insid......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Obscure extra meanings of common words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Isn't it "lights", as in "leaded lights"? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb answers to quiz show questions (in Potpourri) by Richard English
My simple rule of thumb is to ask, "Is the quotation in the sentence or is the sentence in the quota......
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Discussion Topic  Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In the UK there is a Government-backed online learning initiative called Learn Direct for which I am......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It might be easier if the words were spelt even more phoenetically: Con-summ-ut is correct Con-syoo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes. I suppose I should have said the respective converses. However, since neither of the converses,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In England all ladies are women and all gentlemen are men. The converse is not true. Richard Engli......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Signs of the times (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The saints be praised we have, so far, been spared this particular excess! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
We will have to disagree on this. To recite another's composition does not make it ones own. It migh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
But remember I said "...I am reminded of a story about the response of a female to the approaches of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: For want of a nail... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The French? Subtle? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb answers to quiz show questions (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...In which equestrian sport does _______ represent England ? A. Badminton..." Actually tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I am reminded of a story about the response of a female to the approaches of a male intent on sexual......
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Discussion Topic  For want of a nail... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Last week I went to the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane for a travel industry lunch (around 1200 ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Confused doublets (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
So far as I can recall all were to do with printing. At a guess they were the press itself and the i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Humorous lines (in Wordplay) by Richard English
My father once said to a bank manager who was arguing about extending company's overdaft facility, "......
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