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The Oxford comma
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A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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January 07, 2005 01:31
RE: bed clothing
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Quote "...Just skin to sleep in.... never! How unprotected!!! ..." Is this a US thing, maybe? Altho......
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January 06, 2005 23:54
RE: European Babel
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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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January 06, 2005 09:00
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Quote "...What do you Brits call your pajamas or nightgowns?..." We call our pajamas, pyjamas....
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January 06, 2005 01:20
RE: "Neck"
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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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January 05, 2005 08:35
RE: ONLIEST
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The "onliest", like the "very unique", does not and cannot exist as a sensible descriptor....
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January 05, 2005 01:25
RE: Ambition
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My COED says: Brit. Slang. 1. Sink a ship (or its crew) 2. Defeat or ruin (a plan etc) 3. Kill. 19t......
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January 04, 2005 10:00
RE: Ambition
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Scupper means "to deliberately sink a vessel". And I do, I agree, mention Cuba on occasions to my A......
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January 04, 2005 03:30
RE: Cosmology
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Maybe they want to regulate the universe. After all, it's so inconvenient in many ways right now - r......
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January 04, 2005 03:18
RE: To coin a phrase
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Quote, "...Jerry, I think the concern was that "these people" meant that I was separating them from ......
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January 04, 2005 02:26
RE: Ambition
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Quote "...I think more effective and better-educated nurses, who work in a collaborative way with ph......
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January 03, 2005 02:16
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Quote "...In the latter case, I always find myself backing up and backing up until I hit the wall!........
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January 02, 2005 03:32
RE: Ambition
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Remember, we live in a "demand-driven" society and that system seems likely very soon to replace the......
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January 02, 2005 03:22
RE: To coin a phrase
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Quote, "...wholeheartedly endorse the use of "you all", or as I prefer it, "y'all", because English ......
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January 02, 2005 03:06
RE: Comic Germanicisms
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Quote "...then do we use all those accents (forgive my stupidity for not knowing what they are all c......
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January 01, 2005 12:44
RE: Gestures
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There are several books on this topic, the one by Desmond Morris entitled "Bodytalk: The Meaning of ......
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December 31, 2004 05:07
RE: B-movies, Bible-bashing and Larry Buchanan
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If you want to hear some wonderful bible-bashers just go to Speakers' Corner any Sunday afternoon. N......
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December 31, 2004 05:03
RE: like a broken record
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It might have been more familiar had I spelt it correctly ......
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December 31, 2004 04:52
RE: Luxurious Names
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Quote "...I remember the story of Chevrolet's Nova car not selling in Mexico. No one could figure ou......
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December 29, 2004 06:09
RE: Die, damn you ! Die !
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Die, along with agendum, medium and criterion are singulars that I always use....
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