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Ticks the boxes (in The Written Word) by BobHale The 95th percentile of anything is the range into which ninety five percent fit and five percent don...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Ticks the boxes (in The Written Word) by BobHaleI love mathematics. I love language. I love Garrison Keillor's rambling annecdotes of Lake Wobegone....... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word
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Another Google Translate Oddity (in Potpourri) by BobHaleIt starts to make some sense. Google translate has assumed Japanese, translated one Kanji as "loca...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Cut the mustard (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleNot to be confused with ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Another Google Translate Oddity (in Potpourri) by BobHaleHe's English and I think you are right - I just found the randomness of the Japanese version very we...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Another Google Translate Oddity (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOne of my friends replied to my Christmas Greeting email from yesterday. At the end of his post were...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Is this headline right? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleIt's actually a fairly common usage these days. MW says the first recorded usage is 1965 - I have he...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI didn't actually take it because I knew I didn't need it. It was prescribed by a pharmacy, not a do...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI think - having checked the internet - that it means anti-inflammatory.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Yummy (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI had my students creating stories from picture prompts today. Loved the one that started... "The b...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI've had a couple of days off school with a bad cold and a sore throat. As always the teachers have ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Words with negative power (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI've never really cared for the use of ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by BobHaleI don't seem to be able to get the article to load here but your post reminded me of this limerick I...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word
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Opossum (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleJust watched an episode of the Simpsons in which we get to see some of the Simpson ancestors in the ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by BobHaleAn example shown on this week's Have I Got News For You. George Alagiah (a British Newsreader) aski...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word
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Oh, that's not what you meant... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI actually worked in Wokingham and lived in Reading and if there is a more boring place on Earth tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Simply simple (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnd I don't think Paul McCartney would have meant "a simply wonderful time" because that usage is al...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Oh, that's not what you meant... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleLanguagehat has a post titled "A Year in Reading, 2012". My first thought was, "Oh you poor thing, t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Vashon Poll (in Wordplay) by BobHaleNot quite got it nailed yet bethree5 - I wrote numbers 6 and 7 - number 3 was not one of mine.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay Simply simple (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOver at the ever excellent Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum has a post about ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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