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RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude"
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Probably the most difficult part of Schadenfreude for English speakers to pronounce is the "r" in Fr......
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January 14, 2005 02:26
RE: Perchlorate
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I thought that perchlorate (like oxide or sulphate or any other of these compound designators) could......
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January 14, 2005 02:16
RE: Is this offensive?
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I wonder just how many complaints is "lots"....
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January 13, 2005 15:47
RE: Son of Double Dactyls
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Quote "...Layed on the couch with his Hand on his head.." I should think he would have been confuse......
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January 13, 2005 02:34
RE: Apostrophe again, sorry.
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Quote "...My daughter wants me to give them a break because "they do put a newspaper out everyday." ......
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January 11, 2005 15:54
RE: Apostrophe again, sorry.
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Quote "...is simply another case of leaders' failing to lead by example...." Correct, in my view, s......
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January 11, 2005 12:09
RE: Pumping for information
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Quote "...What are high-heeled shoes called them?..." They are called (and wait for this)...high he......
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January 09, 2005 12:15
RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation
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I find I tend rather to look down on women with lowcut dresses....
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January 09, 2005 07:26
RE: Pumping for information
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At school I called them plimsolls....
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January 09, 2005 07:25
RE: bed clothing
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I probably use the term more often than I use the garment - and that is even more true of pyjamas!...
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January 09, 2005 03:13
RE: Where out of this World
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"Erewhon" by Samuel Butler, 1871 Erewhon is "nowhere" reversed and this work is a satire about a fu......
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January 08, 2005 14:21
RE: British vs. American English
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Quote "...BTW, the dictionary contains both spellings, "forfend" and "forefend."..." Another proble......
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January 08, 2005 02:09
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I was wrong about futons. I had thought the word was a synonym for duvet in the USA (it's not used h......
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January 08, 2005 02:07
RE: British vs. American English
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Forfend is correc; my original posting contained a typo. Insofar as the use of language is concerne......
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January 07, 2005 14:52
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Quote "...Should I start a pole???..." If you wish. We have nothing against Eastern Europeans here....
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January 07, 2005 09:53
The Oxford comma
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A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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January 07, 2005 01:31
RE: bed clothing
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Quote "...Just skin to sleep in.... never! How unprotected!!! ..." Is this a US thing, maybe? Altho......
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January 06, 2005 23:54
RE: European Babel
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This is one reason why many citizens of the UK don't want to be in the EU. It is a profligate and in......
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January 06, 2005 09:00
RE: British vs. American English
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In fact, although forfend is archaic in the UK (although I would use it when speaking to my friend S......
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January 06, 2005 01:33
RE: Modern coinages
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Quote, "...Sometimes the snow lasts for 2½ months or more...." I can understand the problem - the s......
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January 06, 2005 01:24
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