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Discussion Topic  RE: Magyar Republic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The International travel convention is to use the local names where surface transport (trains usuall......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Briti?ism (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...If a term or expression is used exclusively in UK English, do you call it a briticism or a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Oh, dear, oh, my. Let's see. Polish mathematicians help break the Enigma machine code (and......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Are they carbon arc lights? I'm sure they were of British origin..." Indeed they were but......
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Discussion Topic  RE: wool and yarn (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Anyone who's interested can look back and read what I posted on the topic of light bulbs. Anyone wh......
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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: 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: 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: Communication: the Internet revolution (in The Written Word) by Richard English
To answer this question we need first to look at the lessons of the past to see what changes the inv......
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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: "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: 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: 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  RE: From "Eats Shoots and Leaves" (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I agree. I usually do this and I tend, also, to use the "Oxford" comma before the final "and" in a l......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Catch phrases (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Interesting. And not a single one from ITMA! Maybe the show never reached the USA....
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