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Discussion Topic  RE: "Affected" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Effect is also a transitive verb To effect means "to bring about", as in "He has effected many cha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Interesting. So your suggestion is that evocation is the criterion? To my mind a piece could be ev......
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Discussion Topic  RE: repair to the dining room... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
As has been mentioned more than once, there are several words in common use in the USA that have bec......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Data: when 'schadenfreude' became used (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I nearly left my German classes when I discovered that they have, theoretically (though some spellin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...What comes to mind when we hear "Samaritan" ??..." These days we think of someone good an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: repair to the dining room... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's used still in England by old-fashioned or pedantic people (which is why I sometimes use it). I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Thank you for this. I am a little clearer thanks to your explanation. What I think you are saying i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Things that aren't poems... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I answer this question with a question: 1. I wanted to stay But you Wouldn't let me So I went And n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The running joke, if joke can be applied to something so weak..." It's not a belly laugh,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My EFL group poetry (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...Criticise all you like but until I can do work of the same standard in theirlanguage I'll ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: My EFL group poetry (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I've never been able to understand how writing prose with short paragraphs turns it into poetry....
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Discussion Topic  Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In the OEDILF there has been some comment about "vulgar" words in Limericks and both CJ and exarp su......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
One of the problems with this survey is that it used multiple-choice questions. Inevitably, if you p......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The poll result shows the most popular pronunciation and that is the way the Germans pronounce the w......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Their pattern (and the German pattern too, I believe) is that an imported foreign word tak......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree that this is the case but I learnt (maybe wrongly) the it is primarily English where a dipth......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What you suggest is hardly the prevalent practice for new importations...." This might ag......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
If the name of the entity is "The Council of Learned Journals" then the possessive (which is unlikel......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree that pronunciation, like word use itself will change. But Schadenfreude is a relatively new ......
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Poll  RE: Pronunciation of "schadenfreude" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I am a skeptic here. I have never heard it pronounced "froy-deh."..." Indeed. In the same......
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