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Discussion Topic  RE: A second quiz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Presumably it hasn't been on US TV, but "Call my Bluff" is a long-established British TV show, where......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Untriangulating (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This word has two meanings, both cartographic. The first is to divide an area into triangles for su......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A second quiz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It looks very much like "Call my Bluff" Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
As in, maybe: "You don't carry a gun? That is so European!" Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A second quiz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's salutory that even well-read people, as we surely are, will usually not know the answers to qui......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Sadly, as the French Academy (I won't use its French title since I still can't work out how to put i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names of British beers (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Of course, with so many beers to name and their being the need to diferentiate, a plethora of names ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Names of British beers (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This is another of the words with several meanings, one of which is "a cask". The word does not hav......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Forgotten English (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I would hazard a guess that it comes from the same root as does the ending "lore" in "folklore". R......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Forgotten English (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I can understand the confusion! In fact, those scenes are of a meeting of the Surrey Vintage Vehicl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Forgotten English (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Today I have just had a pint or several at the Skimmington Castle. Who knows what a Skimmington was?......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This has long been a hobby-horse of mine. It is my firm belief that instruction manuals are written ......
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Discussion Topic  Dr Seuss's cat (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The following reference is from "Getting Your English Right, Tapir, Trondheim 2001" Marking titles,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I should perhaps make it clear that the quotation about whose meaning we are arguing was my own! It ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In UK English it is not required and is therefore grammatically incorrect. Just as the apostrophe is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I will be happy so to do providing, of course, that you extend the same courtesy to me. Otherwise ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have never seen the headline in a journal but, if it is, as has been quoted in these postings, "Dr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
My reference was Michael Temple's "Guide to Written English" - now, I fear, out of print. It is a gu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Damning with faint praise (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I didn't say it was wrong to criticise; I said it was easy. There are certainly times when it is de......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Information Literacy (in Potpourri) by Richard English
But that is a very uncommon commodity. Actually I like the concept of information literacy and con......
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