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Discussion Topic  RE: The inaccurate web (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Don't blame the medium for the message! The web has a lot of inaccurate information; it also has a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Feeling poorly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"He feels proper poorly" would be understood in the south but would be considered a little quaint....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Eating crow" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I believe if comes from crow pie - a dish eaten only by the poorest classes in day of old. A bit lik......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Richard says 'valencies'. We'd say 'valences' on this side of the pond...." Words ending ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I didn't watch the programme as I have seen, and don't much care for, Jerry Springer. Did anyone wat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Comic Germanicisms (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Or you can prepare your submission in Word then copy and paste!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Well, chemistry wasn't my subject - but even so, perchloric acid isn't perchlorate, is it? And more ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I am thinking in the hundreds, but I don't know...." Of course, we're all guessing but I ......
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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: 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  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: 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: "Neck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Thinking back over a lot of years I seem to recall that necking was the name we lads gave to what on......
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