Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results
Page 1 ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... 547
Go
New
Find
Tools
Search Results: (10940 matches) New Search Login/Join 

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
So, following your logic, Richard, what would "I didn't miss not working" be? Is it a triple negativ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
How about this one? Bob should recognise it: ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
Yes, I agree, goofy. That is overnegation. As you say, it doesn't seem wrong on first reading....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
That does depend on context again. Maybe the narrator was lazy and preferred doing nothing to workin......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing Game: autochthonous (in Wordplay) by arnie
Mine is in....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
Here's one from a station ID slogan by Dave, a cable and satellite channel here. ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  RE: Overnegation: don't fail to miss it! (in The Written Word) by arnie
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word

Discussion Topic  Looked after children (in Potpourri) by arnie
As many of you know, I work for ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: World's WORST jokes (part one) (in Wordplay) by arnie
A Frenchman, an Englishman and an Israeli are captured by a tribe of cannibals. The cannibal chief o......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay

Discussion Topic  RE: extraneous negation (in Potpourri) by arnie
Ditto to Geoff and wordmatic....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology Game : Snob (in Wordplay) by arnie
Yes, that's true. I see the Online Etymology Dictionary gives the origin of the "shoemaker" meaning ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay

Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology Game : Snob (in Wordplay) by arnie
Students at Cambridge University lived quite apart from the people of the town. They spent most of t......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay

Discussion Topic  RE: Goodbye to the Queens English Society (in Potpourri) by arnie
I feel almost sorry for them after reading that demolition job by Geoff Pullum! He doesn't try to hi......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: Ice Lolly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
"Lolly" is short for "lollipop", which also contains "pop". I've seen "lollipop" on packaging, but I......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: Etymology Game : Snob (in Wordplay) by arnie
I'll plump for 3....
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay

Discussion Topic  RE: Word related comics (in Potpourri) by arnie
Yes, that's a favourite site for several of us, CW. Several people have posted links, the most recen......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri

Discussion Topic  RE: tighty whities (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Remember I'm not exactly ......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: tighty whities (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
I've heard "tighty whities" mentioned on US TV but not over here, although they're not a subject I c......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words

Discussion Topic  RE: more people in the world are bitten by New Yorkers every year than they are by sharks (in Potpourri) by arnie
......
Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri


» Refine Search
» New Search

  Powered by Social Strata Page 1 ... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... 547 

Wordcraft Home Page    Wordcraft Community Home Page    Forums    Search    Search Results

Copyright © 2002-12