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RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "overnagation". In British English double negatives are c......
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RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
That's how it started - but it took very little time for it to move onto all kinds of excessive nega......
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RE: Dashpot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The damper on an SU carburettor is not the same as a throttle return check - which is a dashpot in t......
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RE: Dashpot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
As I wrote, I have never heard the SU damping chamber referred to as a "dashpot". That is not to say......
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RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I had assumed he meant what the sentence meant. I didn't realise he had put in a redundant negative.......
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RE: Dashpot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Triple negatives are even harder than double negatives. But it would be difficult to say make this p......
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RE: Dashpot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have always known the word as describing those hydraulic devices that close a door automatically a......
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RE: Limerick Game: Kalorama Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
In fact, having re-read mine I realise I could have made L2 scan better by writing it as: To his wi......
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RE: Limerick Game: Kalorama Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
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RE: copacetic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I did research this, very clever, poem once. Interestingly it was written by a Dutchman! See here -......
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RE: Times smaller (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I deplore the "five times smaller" style of referring to lesser quantities. We have a system of num......
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RE: secular (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There are two meanings for "factoid": 1. Something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) i......
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