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Discussion Topic  RE: Art with a capital ... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...I looked at Tracy Emin's Unmade Bed, and it looked like art to me,..." Well, it looked li......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Art with a capital ... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...To become a great artist means that people have admired and bought the work; that is, they......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Bringing this back to words, did you know that the Latin word Scotus meant Irish?..." I d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Would you also say, "The British invented Scotch Whiskey"? Or would you say, "The British......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Art with a capital ... (in The Written Word) by Richard English
What I have noticed about "art" (and I include all forms of art in this, including music) is that it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Its like a Frenchman saying, "we invented" something German, and then saying that by "we" ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...golf: developed by the Scots (not an "English" game, for the same reasons as apply to lacr......
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Poll  RE: Quiz about diagnonal (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Really, sir, you Brits should take greater care to maintain the purity of your version of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...The waitress listened closely to my extended recitation and then politely advised me that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: For all the scientists here... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote, "...I don't believe a camera lens can focus radiation outside the visual range..." Actually ......
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Poll  RE: Quiz about diagnonal (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Have you seen the results of a dialect survey by the Harvard Computer Society..." Interes......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names and origins of sports (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Ah well, sport isn't my area of expertise, I confess, and I didn't bother to check about netball/bas......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Generalisations are risky, I know, but I think it's fair to say the the "average" American will be m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Sorry about Xerxes. That was just a typo. And I disagree with the practice, now very common in the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Well, I personally have standardized on the following rule: a simple apostrophe for the po......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Erasmus' Encomium or Erasmus's Encomium? I have seen both versions....
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suspect that this construction is more common in UK English than it is in US. As with the use of t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I think of similes as being a rhetorical device that use like or as, but maybe yours is a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote, "...Just because people use a word mistakenly shouldn't mean that the definition should chang......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer Names (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Interesting. I didn't check but I had heard that the gender reversal was as I stated. However, presu......
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