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Discussion Topic  RE: Diet of Worms (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Yet, are "metal" and "mettle" or "medal" and "meddle" considered to be homonymy words..." ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is (or is not) a "word"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I'm glad that's cleared up, then. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Oddly enough the ONLY place where I have been served Ouzo without ice was in Athens - in a bar in Co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, that depends on what you mean by Europe! Europe is a continent, not a country, and any two Eur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Indeed. My comment was tongue in cheek! I had noticed this strange US desire for ice. When I staye......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The slang term for a cigarette in England is (or was, since it is now more or less obselete) fag, no......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Are there really nations so deprived that they don't get to eat Toad-in-the hole? You'll be tellin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I hadn't realised that US pies were usually sweet. We have both sweet an savoury pies here and meat ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Blitzableiter ??? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In England we don't have lightning rods; we have lighting CONDUCTORS. They do the same job, though. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The expression "a pint and a pie" is nicely alliterative rather than literal. Pubs do sell pies, usu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Prostitution is very common in Cuba and I have heard the expression jineteras used to describe all t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This is quite a common expression in UK English and it simply implies speed. A house fire progresses......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Out of the mouths of "babes" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It makes me wonder whether there is a similar link between adults and adultery :-) Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bathroom Humor (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, fo course, the man who installed the lavatatories for British royalty, one Thomas Crapper, cal......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Impactful (in Potpourri) by Richard English
If I can I will tell without yelling Of the Gaurdian's legendary spellign I'm not being pikky when I......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The postings are only accessible to those registered with Learn Direct as tutors or students. I am a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Possibly. But this would then mean that the student has never been sober when he's posted (and he ha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's not possible to tell the nationality of the learners unless they have chosen to put it in their......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Seduction (in Potpourri) by Richard English
That's the price of the World Travel Sales Guide, not the dictionary. The dictionary's £16.50. Sadl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Seduction (in Potpourri) by Richard English
True. But that particular man didn't have a copyright on his name. There is at least one other and m......
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