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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this headline right? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
It's actually a fairly common usage these days. MW says the first recorded usage is 1965 - I have he......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I didn't actually take it because I knew I didn't need it. It was prescribed by a pharmacy, not a do......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I think - having checked the internet - that it means anti-inflammatory....
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Discussion Topic  Yummy (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I had my students creating stories from picture prompts today. Loved the one that started... "The b......
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Discussion Topic  Nice word (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I've had a couple of days off school with a bad cold and a sore throat. As always the teachers have ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words with negative power (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I've never really cared for the use of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by BobHale
I don't seem to be able to get the article to load here but your post reminded me of this limerick I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oh, that's not what you meant... (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I actually worked in Wokingham and lived in Reading and if there is a more boring place on Earth tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Simply simple (in Potpourri) by BobHale
And I don't think Paul McCartney would have meant "a simply wonderful time" because that usage is al......
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Discussion Topic  Oh, that's not what you meant... (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Languagehat has a post titled "A Year in Reading, 2012". My first thought was, "Oh you poor thing, t......
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Discussion Topic  Simply simple (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Over at the ever excellent Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum has a post about ......
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Discussion Topic  What do they teach them? (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I have just watched an episode of Young Apprentice where the teenagers were engaged in a variation o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another take on "no word for..." (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Of course some of our roundabouts are ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limerick Game: Vashon (in Wordplay) by BobHale
Sent you a couple....
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Discussion Topic  RE: So, what would you tell him? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
And while I think about it, many of the Chinese grammar books still have the specious distiction bet......
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Discussion Topic  So, what would you tell him? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
A teacher – English not Chinese – today asked me if I could give him a quick run down of the English......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another take on "no word for..." (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Never heard your use of rotary. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another take on "no word for..." (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I read this differently. The point, as I see it, is to support our "no such thing as 'no word for'" ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: PARAPROSDOKIANS (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I'm going to miss you, unless I get the sights on this rifle fixed. A bird in the hand will probabl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Newpaper articles of interest - Part II (in The Written Word) by BobHale
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