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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Do you think that the English meat dish, faggots, would sell better in the USA were it do be called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Not sure what the that in "than that" refers to...." It's a careless sentence, I agree. I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
So how would you say, "There are three "u's" in Tumulus and cumulus - are there any English words wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fantastic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...People, especially the younger ones, use hyperbole far too much. ..." I suspect it's a ki......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...But, Graham, how would you distinguish it from dos (the Spanish word for 2)?..." Or even ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...In short there are many complexities that exist in English that cause non-natives a headac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
But English is, I suggest, easier than most. After all, we have no genders; our verbs barely declin......
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Discussion Topic  "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On the beer bpard recently someone said, "...But if we're choosing months, I get dibs on November! .......
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Discussion Topic  RE: From "Eats Shoots and Leaves" (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I agree. I usually do this and I tend, also, to use the "Oxford" comma before the final "and" in a l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
This explains the whole story very well. Incidentally, this is a good example of how the Bible can ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Interesting. And not a single one from ITMA! Maybe the show never reached the USA....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...jheem or Bob, do you think that German is a harder language to learn than English is?..." ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Affected" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Effect is also a transitive verb To effect means "to bring about", as in "He has effected many cha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Interesting. So your suggestion is that evocation is the criterion? To my mind a piece could be ev......
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Discussion Topic  RE: repair to the dining room... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
As has been mentioned more than once, there are several words in common use in the USA that have bec......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I nearly left my German classes when I discovered that they have, theoretically (though some spellin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...What comes to mind when we hear "Samaritan" ??..." These days we think of someone good an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: repair to the dining room... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's used still in England by old-fashioned or pedantic people (which is why I sometimes use it). I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Thank you for this. I am a little clearer thanks to your explanation. What I think you are saying i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Centrally, mentally Those from the Black Country Do love our language That much is clear. One thing......
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