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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Through the mill" means to me that you have been put through a difficult experience and have come o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I had heard that this was to get around a newspaper's strict embargo on what it deemed to be frivolo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have used comic sans for some of my training manuals and I agree, it is a "friendly" font. However......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Times New Roman is probably the most economical font there is, being highly legible in even the smal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Chess (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...too erudite to be sport..." Chess is the only sport that I play. And if I really want to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Taxi, though,comes from taximeter, the device that was used to record the distance travelled and thu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote, "...There are other words that describe a light-hearted and carefree disposition: perky, fun,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I know I'm missing some things, but you get the idea. Richard, good libraries have evolved......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caps, bolds and exclamation points... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Text that is all capitals is difficult to read sinply because the clues given by the varying heights......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What! My library has music and videos. Books, too, of course? Yours does have books, doesn......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Earn a living from books (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...That's great, Richard! Will it be sold in The States, do you know?..." I don't know. That......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Earn a living from books (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Actually I've just written an audio book called, excitingly, "Effective Public Speaking". I'd have l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: SHIBBOLETH (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The Danish dessert rød grød med fløde 'red compote with cream'...." I actually said that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Graffiti (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I use graffito - as do the better newspapers over here. It is not, though, all that common since mos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'Quicker' or 'more quickly'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Why not use faster dogs to get it over with quicker?.." I would not use an adverb or an a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks, continued (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Of course it doesn't work in UK English since "sauce" and "boss" don't rhyme....
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The hunting issue is one that arouses fierce passions and I will not add fuel to the fire. I have sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prognostication (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Indeed it does. But it says that "Brit" (no full stop) is an informal term for a British person. The......
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Discussion Topic  RE: balaclava (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A very good and unbiased article to my mind. Hadlow is actually quite near to where I live - about f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Kalleh, to me the first part of what you were doing was certainly education, albeit specialised rath......
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