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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Obviously there will have been other nations involved and Jaquard's automated loom was one of the fe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...How did you get on in Saudi Arabia? ..." Actually, I've never beer there. The nearest I'v......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In The Times yesterday they published a headline in their "This Day" column, that related to 1959. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Italian (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Could I say that I like Annabel Crabb's piece - for all its journalistic style. Does she write for a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...though Jordan seems so very far and so very different, all across the world we have a lot ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Efforts to censor Internet communication (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...in the middle of Iran - a country with a represivee regime and alegedly a high moral stand......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
According to Australian speaker Amanda Gore, women tend to have a very low self-image and age is onl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is there a word for... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Humourising? Funnying?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
One of the first manufacturing processes to be automated was textiles and it was this that started t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...Corinthian leather in the 1975 Chrysler Cordoba..." You'd have thought that Spanish leath......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Do you think that the English meat dish, faggots, would sell better in the USA were it do be called ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This discussion on school slang reminds me of another term we used which was "fains" or "fainites" (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Not sure what the that in "than that" refers to...." It's a careless sentence, I agree. I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
So how would you say, "There are three "u's" in Tumulus and cumulus - are there any English words wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fantastic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...People, especially the younger ones, use hyperbole far too much. ..." I suspect it's a ki......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I've only ever heard the verb declined as if its infinitive were "To bags", not "To Bag". Oxford sug......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation Site (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...But, Graham, how would you distinguish it from dos (the Spanish word for 2)?..." Or even ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...In short there are many complexities that exist in English that cause non-natives a headac......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
But English is, I suggest, easier than most. After all, we have no genders; our verbs barely declin......
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Discussion Topic  "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On the beer bpard recently someone said, "...But if we're choosing months, I get dibs on November! .......
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