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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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Prognostication (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Indeed it does. But it says that "Brit" (no full stop) is an informal term for a British person. The......
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Discussion Topic  RE: balaclava (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A very good and unbiased article to my mind. Hadlow is actually quite near to where I live - about f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Kalleh, to me the first part of what you were doing was certainly education, albeit specialised rath......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Just to clear up one isunderstanding - I do not disdain higher education. My disdain is reserved for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prognostication (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Samuel Insull, of course, spent most of his life in Chicago and was very much involved with the "El"......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Education is primarily about imparting knowledge and quite often knowledge that the educator (and th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "..."Training" is another of their words that the nursing community is fighting; the nurses pr......
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Poll  RE: Reliability of polls (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Richard, I am curious. Is this your personal view or all of England's?..." I can't speak ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Absolutely, yes, certainly, no question about it (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "... think people knew very well what both this poll and CJ's first poll were all about. They ......
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Poll  RE: Reliability of polls (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Doing it on the desk is often a different story...." Indeed. And a lot more fun......
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Poll  RE: Reliability of polls (in Potpourri) by Richard English
One of the things that often surprises those who work in large organisations is that most people - d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer cocktails (in The Written Word) by Richard English
As I understood it, Shandy is simply an abbreviation for Shandygaff. And a Shandy is beer (usually b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Absolutely, yes, certainly, no question about it (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Richard, I think the very same data would have been obtained (in any of the polls) no matt......
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Poll  RE: Reliability of polls (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The national average (in the U.S.) is 12%, compared to our 22%..." I wonder what the nat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The difference between the sexes (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Nah then, Salmon's just one kind of pig's. We got apple as well and, o' course, if yer in the bees y......
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