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Discussion Topic  RE: Spanglish (and others) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It is sad that a person with the standing and education of a laywer should make such an assinine rem......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Yiddish words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have learnt from the many conversations I have had both on and off this board that most Americans ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Foreign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There is an apocryphal tale of an Englishman who was directed to a "foreigners" gate at a port. He s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Yiddish words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I agree. We have some fairly large Jewish communities (including some very strict Orthodox ones) but......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Mothering Sunday is a very old religious festival that was not originally specifically to do with mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The office of the data protection registrar (or whatever its latest incarnation is called) still use......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Workaholics (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Toy library (unless it means a model of a library, of course) Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The word agenda is the plural of agendum. To call agenda "agendae" is making a plural from a plural.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Since it is now a well-known fact that I am of an "uncertain age", let me reveal that, when I was yo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I'll have a pint of Jean Claude Van Damme please.... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Never mind the illegal Belgian immigrants - where's the boozer? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
When I lived in Maidstone we had Trolley Buses and I remember one occasion just after the War when w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oration: types of speechs (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Let us be thankful that is wasn't spelt "speech's"! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The fax preference service is at ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks, continued (in The Written Word) by Richard English
While it's good to learn that the word oranges can rhyme with the Cockney phrase "door 'inges" may I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double Negatives (in Wordplay) by Richard English
How about the outside being the more feathery of the two? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Goodbye" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Nine out of ten for effort. But it was Tommy Handley! Jimmy (no relation so far as I know) was als......
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Discussion Topic  RE: England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In fact, in the UK most forms of cold calling to private indivuals are illegal. However, it's very d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
My brother-in-Law is an actuary and has two children... Biro is a term well-understood in the UK a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Which is why, for many years, the GPO (then providers of the telephone service in the UK) used to pr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Smugness (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Just back from London! The passive voice is a perfectly good grammatical form and it is commonly us......
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