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RE: Novercal
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Quote "...As has been posted here, there are even (albeit few and far between) errors in the OED (e.......
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May 23, 2004 01:59
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Quote "...The 'there' wasn't a misspelling; it was a grammatical error..." A moot point. It could b......
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May 23, 2004 01:29
RE: "Dutch" phrases
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Quote "...Florida is not the USA. It's Cuba Lite...." Well, having been to both places I have to sa......
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May 22, 2004 14:33
RE: "Dutch" phrases
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Quote "...The second was the term "French kiss" because "American girls never kissed that way..." G......
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May 22, 2004 11:32
RE: CUSTOMER NOTCE
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What makes you think that printers can spell?...
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May 22, 2004 11:29
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Check with an electrician!...
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May 18, 2004 22:42
RE: Wordnerd's Quiz #1
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Quote "...corkage" was always the term we used to describe the "cork-ettes" that floated in your bot......
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May 18, 2004 02:03
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World Wide Words has a feature in which it quotes passages which are amusing because of unintended d......
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May 17, 2004 10:00
RE: This usage grates
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Both sentences seem fine to me - but then I like the passive voice....
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May 13, 2004 05:23
RE: Highly appropriate sayings
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I have to say that, on the beer board, the possessive form of it is spelt with an apostrophe more of......
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May 09, 2004 22:47
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Quote "...Thus do I aver that not all products of the USA are akiin to fermented horse piss...." An......
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May 09, 2004 01:50
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I have just seen a saying by Thomas Carlyle that was new to me but which I felt is just so, so true.......
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May 08, 2004 06:21
RE: lie/lay
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Cockney rhyming slang is a living form and new terms are being created constantly. They are memorise......
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May 03, 2004 23:17
RE: Decimation and changes of meaning
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I wrote a letter to a travel paper once in response to their assertion that the recession could "dec......
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April 27, 2004 02:17
RE: Decimation and changes of meaning
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CJ is right. The verb "to decimate" seems now to be used as a simile for "to devastate". The shift ......
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April 26, 2004 09:35
RE: Strategic Objective Teminology
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Actually the "balance scorecard" is no great shakes over here. We have some consultants that use it ......
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April 25, 2004 22:21
RE: Scandinavian language(s)
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It is, indeed. From the Latin "cemeterium"....
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April 25, 2004 22:09
RE: lie/lay
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That is an excellent site. I shall bookmark it....
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April 24, 2004 02:56
RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE!
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In fact, the situation is even worse as you can see here: ......
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April 23, 2004 11:35
RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE!
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(Yawn). Sleeping pills? Earplugs? Blindfolds?...
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April 22, 2004 11:52
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