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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: Hashing (in Potpourri) by Richard English
We used to do it in the Boy Scouts but we called it "tracking". There were several signs used along ......
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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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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: Senior Moment (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I think I realised I was getting old when I stopped thinking of age as some eccentricity that old pe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have just been reading "Words" by Paul Dickson, (for the gift of which I will always be grateful t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Surely Virge and jheem are right here that this is professional book mostly to be used by ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
As I said, Bullshit baffles brains and it's quite a while since I've seen a passage containing so mu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Oh, I don't know. It seems an easy enough concept to grasp and a simple enough coinage (i.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suppose the real moral of this tale is that Bullshit, as ever, baffles brains! Talk a load of uni......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Effect" vs. "Affect" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...which are referred to as "indexes"...." Not indices?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Well,the prfix "Meta-" usually has to do with change of position or situation (such as in metamorpho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quinion's new book! (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Coincidentally I have just finished reading my copy. There are large numbers of words that he define......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's in a Name? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "... "Do you suppose he's compensating for something?" ..." Well, there have been few rumours......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The dreaded semi-colon! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Excellent! I tried to google it myself but thought that the first sentence was "see how THE semicol......
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