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Discussion Topic  RE: CUSTOMER NOTCE (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...The 'there' wasn't a misspelling; it was a grammatical error..." A moot point. It could b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dutch" phrases (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...Florida is not the USA. It's Cuba Lite...." Well, having been to both places I have to sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dutch" phrases (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...The second was the term "French kiss" because "American girls never kissed that way..." G......
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Discussion Topic  RE: CUSTOMER NOTCE (in Potpourri) by Richard English
What makes you think that printers can spell?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Vive la difference! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I has been my own experience that men are far more likely to notice what women are not wearing than ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Check with an electrician!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wordnerd's Quiz #1 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...corkage" was always the term we used to describe the "cork-ettes" that floated in your bot......
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Discussion Topic  Sic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
World Wide Words has a feature in which it quotes passages which are amusing because of unintended d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: This usage grates (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Both sentences seem fine to me - but then I like the passive voice....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Thus do I aver that not all products of the USA are akiin to fermented horse piss...." An......
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Discussion Topic  Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
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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Discussion Topic  RE: Decimation and changes of meaning (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I wrote a letter to a travel paper once in response to their assertion that the recession could "dec......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Baseball words in England (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Never heard of any one of them! Seems like you've bowled us a googly there, Wordnerd....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decimation and changes of meaning (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
CJ is right. The verb "to decimate" seems now to be used as a simile for "to devastate". The shift ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scandinavian language(s) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It is, indeed. From the Latin "cemeterium"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Help! I need a word! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
We used to have a thing here called "work to rule" - which meant really a policy of non-cooperation.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In fact, the situation is even worse as you can see here: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
(Yawn). Sleeping pills? Earplugs? Blindfolds?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe affecting the meaning (in Potpourri) by Richard English
jheem, Apologies. I did not make it clear that my most recent posting was in response to aput's com......
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