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Discussion Topic  Pendants' Revolt (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Did anyone see this interesting programme (which included, among others, John Richard of the APS) wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Guardian and Apostroflies (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Very erudite for "The Graunaid"...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...The one episode I remember most vividly was taking Dartmoor Prison on holiday by sailing i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
My late aunt Ivy made Arthur's tie from old curtain material and he was reluctant to wear his first ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I believe that both Manx and Cornish have been revived, although the last true Manx speaker died lat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Out of the Mouths of Babes... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Now, Richard. This sounds like the kind of rationalization that Yanks put forward for Edis......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 8th Wonder of the World (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Clearly this will be a personal selection but come on... The Statue of Liberty? Why not the Eiffel ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: You Old Coot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...He complained that men, in the dating scene, have it much worse than women. I argued back ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Accents: "protest" and "contest" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There are several words like this of which "record" (the noun) and "record" (the verb) spring immedi......
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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: 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: 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: Words of Elections and Voting (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I have never heard of "pocket borough" although we do use "safe seat". A "rotten borough" was one w......
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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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