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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I am thinking in the hundreds, but I don't know...." Of course, we're all guessing but I ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Perchlorate (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I thought that perchlorate (like oxide or sulphate or any other of these compound designators) could......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I wonder just how many complaints is "lots"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What are high-heeled shoes called them?..." They are called (and wait for this)...high he......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I find I tend rather to look down on women with lowcut dresses....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
At school I called them plimsolls....
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I probably use the term more often than I use the garment - and that is even more true of pyjamas!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Where out of this World (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Erewhon" by Samuel Butler, 1871 Erewhon is "nowhere" reversed and this work is a satire about a fu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I was wrong about futons. I had thought the word was a synonym for duvet in the USA (it's not used h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Should I start a pole???..." If you wish. We have nothing against Eastern Europeans here....
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Discussion Topic  The Oxford comma (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Just skin to sleep in.... never! How unprotected!!! ..." Is this a US thing, maybe? Altho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: European Babel (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...What do you Brits call your pajamas or nightgowns?..." We call our pajamas, pyjamas....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Neck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: ONLIEST (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The "onliest", like the "very unique", does not and cannot exist as a sensible descriptor....
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
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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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Scupper means "to deliberately sink a vessel". And I do, I agree, mention Cuba on occasions to my A......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cosmology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Maybe they want to regulate the universe. After all, it's so inconvenient in many ways right now - r......
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Discussion Topic  RE: To coin a phrase (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote, "...Jerry, I think the concern was that "these people" meant that I was separating them from ......
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