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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: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I agree the laws are used - but they are often not adequate. For example, a libel which is posted an......
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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: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by Richard English
The laws about libel, like the laws about copyright, have been overtaken by new communications techn......
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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: 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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Poll  RE: Limerick Game: Vail Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Not to drag this too far off topic, but this moring on BBC southeast news there was an item about br......
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Poll  RE: Limerick Game: Vail Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Good, isn't it?...
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Poll  RE: Limerick Game: Vail Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Well, mine did address a facet of the city since Vail is where Rob Eaton comes from. And as soon as ......
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Poll  RE: Limerick Game: Vail Poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
A worthy winner. Incidentally, did anyone check the truth of my statement about Rob Eaton and the Da......
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Poll  Small Dole limerick poll (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Well, whilst I was away cruising there was a flood of late entries so I am now posting the poll. Wel......
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Discussion Topic  Small Dole Limerick (in Wordplay) by Richard English
OK folks. PM me your limericks for Small Dole. There's not much in Small Dole apart from a quite ni......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
In Jennifer Stewart's newsletter today - ......
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Discussion Topic  Dial Post limerick (in Wordplay) by Richard English
My next choice is the little village of Dial Post - ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (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 would think it's a triple negative, yes. It means that the writer is glad to be working again afte......
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