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Discussion Topic  Name Choice (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I just watched an old episode of Mork and Mindy in which the evil landlord who wants to evict Mindy'......
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Discussion Topic  A favourite legal quote (in The Written Word) by BobHale
I was writing limericks for the OEDILF when I discovered that among its other expansions in scope th......
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Discussion Topic  Misunderstanding or Misreporting (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I really hope that either I am misunderstanding the latest news from the UK or the newspapers are mi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I can give a very easy example from my own dialect. The negative form of "did" that is commonly hea......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I don't doubt for a moment that language change is happening and that dialect change is part of that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  Made up etymologies (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I've seen some daft proposed etymologies in my time but this one takes the biscuit. I wrote a limer......
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Discussion Topic  apposition (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I have been trying to explain some things about apposition to one of my private students in response......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Before trying to work out why there is an homogenisation of local accents, I'd want to see some evid......
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Discussion Topic  Horsemeat (in The Written Word) by BobHale
I don't know how much of the current "horsemeat-in-the-burgers" story you have seen over in the US b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
The rule is that every contributer writes in his own dialect and that if they say it's right then it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
The prblem that was raised with here/tear(noun)/disappear seemed to be that there was a rhotic r in ......
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Discussion Topic  Cot-caught and other rhyming difficulties. (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I've recently been banging out a fair few new limericks for the OEDILF and in the process been both ......
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Discussion Topic  Headlines (in The Written Word) by BobHale
A headline on Yahoo today reads "Cat with only two right legs" How many right legs did they expect......
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Discussion Topic  Translation and blank verse (in The Written Word) by BobHale
I bought a couple of books of translations of Chinese poetry while I was in Beijing. For the most pa......
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Discussion Topic  Any idea how to google this? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
I just started to read a popular mathematics book and in the second paragraph it makes a claim which......
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Discussion Topic  Fame (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I've just seen an old episode of the original US version of The Apprentice*. It was one where the ca......
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Discussion Topic  The End of The World: A Poem for the Apocalypse (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  Splintering :D? (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I didn't know that ......
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