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Discussion Topic  RE: Gaeilge (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I believe that both Manx and Cornish have been revived, although the last true Manx speaker died lat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 8th Wonder of the World (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Clearly this will be a personal selection but come on... The Statue of Liberty? Why not the Eiffel ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks, continued (in The Written Word) by Richard English
it seems to me that the common UK sound "AW" is rare in the USA. Here are some examples of when it i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: You Old Coot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...He complained that men, in the dating scene, have it much worse than women. I argued back ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Black Books (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...First of all, from what I've seen, you Brits have MANY "slightly weird" TV comedy shows.........
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Discussion Topic  RE: Been through the mill (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Through the mill" means to me that you have been put through a difficult experience and have come o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I had heard that this was to get around a newspaper's strict embargo on what it deemed to be frivolo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have used comic sans for some of my training manuals and I agree, it is a "friendly" font. However......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All sorts of "fonts" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Times New Roman is probably the most economical font there is, being highly legible in even the smal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Chess (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...too erudite to be sport..." Chess is the only sport that I play. And if I really want to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Suffixes becoming words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Taxi, though,comes from taximeter, the device that was used to record the distance travelled and thu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote, "...There are other words that describe a light-hearted and carefree disposition: perky, fun,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I know I'm missing some things, but you get the idea. Richard, good libraries have evolved......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caps, bolds and exclamation points... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Text that is all capitals is difficult to read sinply because the clues given by the varying heights......
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Discussion Topic  RE: F-word etymology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What! My library has music and videos. Books, too, of course? Yours does have books, doesn......
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Discussion Topic  RE: SHIBBOLETH (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The Danish dessert rød grød med fløde 'red compote with cream'...." I actually said that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Graffiti (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I use graffito - as do the better newspapers over here. It is not, though, all that common since mos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: 'Quicker' or 'more quickly'? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Why not use faster dogs to get it over with quicker?.." I would not use an adverb or an a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks, continued (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Of course it doesn't work in UK English since "sauce" and "boss" don't rhyme....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apprenticeships (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Kalleh, to me the first part of what you were doing was certainly education, albeit specialised rath......
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