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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It never fails to amaze me that companies spend thousands of pounds on materials design, thousands o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Your rewrite is probably better. But I didn't recast the sentence as I wanted to make the point th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
A bit more punctuation would have helped a great deal: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Frid......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  RE: Dashpot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  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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Discussion Topic  RE: Compelling news story (in Potpourri) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: World's WORST jokes (part one) (in Wordplay) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: Speak English (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Frightening. Are the words "your" and "you're" the most commonly confused in English? Or does that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Compelling news story (in Potpourri) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: Compelling news story (in Potpourri) by Richard English
That's right. Just like that Acapulco earthquake. "American not hurt" (only one, you'll note)....
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