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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Probably the most difficult part of Schadenfreude for English speakers to pronounce is the "r" in Fr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I thought that perchlorate (like oxide or sulphate or any other of these compound designators) could......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I wonder just how many complaints is "lots"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...Layed on the couch with his Hand on his head.." I should think he would have been confuse......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...My daughter wants me to give them a break because "they do put a newspaper out everyday." ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...is simply another case of leaders' failing to lead by example...." Correct, in my view, s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What are high-heeled shoes called them?..." They are called (and wait for this)...high he......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I find I tend rather to look down on women with lowcut dresses....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
At school I called them plimsolls....
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I probably use the term more often than I use the garment - and that is even more true of pyjamas!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Where out of this World (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Erewhon" by Samuel Butler, 1871 Erewhon is "nowhere" reversed and this work is a satire about a fu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...BTW, the dictionary contains both spellings, "forfend" and "forefend."..." Another proble......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Forfend is correc; my original posting contained a typo. Insofar as the use of language is concerne......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Should I start a pole???..." If you wish. We have nothing against Eastern Europeans here....
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Discussion Topic  The Oxford comma (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Just skin to sleep in.... never! How unprotected!!! ..." Is this a US thing, maybe? Altho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In fact, although forfend is archaic in the UK (although I would use it when speaking to my friend S......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote, "...Sometimes the snow lasts for 2½ months or more...." I can understand the problem - the s......
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