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| Not precisely Sapir-Whorf (in Potpourri) by BobHale Just listened to an interesting talk on the Lexicon Valley podcast (Apr 3 2019) about language being...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Rhyme (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleI know that I have occasionally asked this before but never managed an answer. Is there a website li...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Cliff (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThis week's lesson is the last lesson of the term and so I've been doing a nice, fun, easy lesson ab...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick Game: Taiwan (in Wordplay) by BobHaleAs I'm going there on holiday next month.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay I have no answer for that (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThis week I am doing a series of ad-hoc tests in my classes. It's not a formal assessment as my cour...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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tiny rat's ass (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleYou know, I have heard the phrase many times but only just realised that I DON’T know what Shinola i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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tiny rat's ass (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAnother phrase my Dad used was discussed here a long time ago. If someone was seized with an attack ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words A long time ago in a galaxy for away (in Potpourri) by BobHaleContinuing my trawl through the archives I ran across a thread that started "Barack Obama, the Sena...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Tall, Grande,Vente (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnother old discussion was about why coffee shops can't make do with "small", "medium" and "large", ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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tiny rat's ass (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleSix of one, half a dozen of the other. It was a phrase my Dad used to use quite a lot.... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Books V Movies (in Potpourri) by BobHaleIn my reading through old threads I ran across a discussion of books and the movies based on them an...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri You are not so smart (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleConsistency Bias There is a really good book (and podcast) by David Macraney called “You Are Not So...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Please tell me this is just a spoof (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI know Tucker Carlson is a conspiracy theory nutcase but please, all my good American friends, pleas...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Is that an idiom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleA newspaper here had the sentence “The President later rowed back his comments.” Is that actually an...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words File under "run that by me again"... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleJust saw an advert for a job offering "up to around 20,000 RMB a month minimum." Up to? Around? Mini...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Why can't singers... (in Potpourri) by BobHale...pronounce the word "miracle" correctly? I can't think of a single song that I have ever heard (in...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Words from Brexit (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleBoris-Lock Of course not every newly coined Brexit word has to be a blend. Recently in a last ditch...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Words from Brexit (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleRemainer/Bremoaner Another day another Humpty Dumpty word. Initially the words used to describe tho...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Words from Brexit (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleBackstop To understand what the backstop is you first need a primer on the history of the border be...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Words from Brexit (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleFlextension Another word that would have Humpty Dumpty waxing lyrical is “flextension”. They do see...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum | » Refine Search » New Search |
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