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Discussion Topic  RE: Words reflecting societal change (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Gay is a nice short, non-medical word meaning homosexual. There is no other. It is a word......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Leadership vs. Jazz (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Armstrong always travelled with a reel-to-reel tape recorder and dictated thousands of tap......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words reflecting societal change (in Potpourri) by Richard English
My objection to the hijacking of "gay" as meaning homosexual is a simple one. There is no exact sy......
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Discussion Topic  RE: winkelhake (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
At school we had a brief spell of calling everyone "Tony" on the basis that we all owned that name. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Unambiguous Ambiguities (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
But they're not pronounced the same nor do they have the same etymology. And of course, there are m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Last Tuesday I was in London, standing at the bottom of Shaftesbury avenue waiting for a bus, and sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...BTW, I was intrigued by the chiefly British definition of "Loud, arrogant speech; bluster.......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
By coicidence I have just been speaking to the General Sales Manager of a cruise line. His name? Lol......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I've been wrong all my life! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quotes "... I always seem to type 'remember' as 'remeber'..." "...Nearly every time!I find myself t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: welcome to participate: Two things that have happened to me lately (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I agree with you. However, the site I found seemed nothing more than a diary recounting a number of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Eats, Shoots and Leaves (in The Written Word) by Richard English
In 1989 I went to Acapulco and flew three sectors, not one of which was on a Boeing aircraft (DC10, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Eats, Shoots and Leaves (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...Too Loose To Lose in Touluse: How France stole Boeing's business with Airbus Industrie... ......
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Poll  RE: "which" vs. "that" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Way off base" is not a very common term in the UK and I am thus rather inclined to think it's from ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: meritocracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
To my mind the word "meritocracy" means people who have achieved their positions of eminence through......
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Discussion Topic  RE: welcome to participate: Two things that have happened to me lately (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...if it's in this section, "the written word", why is that spam..." This section is about t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...but "quad" has already been pre-empted for one of four children born at once. ..." But wh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Senior Moment (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...A light year is a unit of time..." I always understood it to be a unit of distance - the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English
There have been a few in London - though I haven't seen any recently so I don't know whether the ven......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British regional accents (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...More broadly, what characters from film and TV exemplify various regional accents?..." I'......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A new term of endearment. (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...I can't say that I have been called a "c---" so it's hard for me to say how I'd feel being......
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