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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Except that they're not people. In fact, the use or omission of the apostrophe in these sorts of te......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
True. However when I was a perpetually randy teenager (or is that expression tautological?) I was ne......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Confused doublets (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
So far as I can recall all were to do with printing. At a guess they were the press itself and the i......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
We certainly have nothing like that in the UK. As one of the chronically unpursued (and unsuccessful......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Until I discovered it on a cdrom of clip-art, I didn't even know it existed. I would imagine that mo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Humorous lines (in Wordplay) by Richard English
My father once said to a bank manager who was arguing about extending company's overdaft facility, "......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Indeed it was. As was the Wright flyer rubbish compared with the designs of ten years later (Charles......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
No. But there are certainly some of his followers here. Maybe an even greater percentage of the popu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Foreign Accent Syndrome" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...It's my understanding that those "Friends" episodes set in England actually portrayed Brit......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Non-Fiction read (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Anything by Asimov is worth reading and, of course, his range was very broad - probably the broadest......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Be Thankful...It's just Thanksgiving Once a Year! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
No. We don't celebrate it in the UK (which is not surprising since it derives from the Pilgrim Fathe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: McJob: A new-word controversy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Is the gun crime figure per capita? If not, then an adjustment needs to be made as Canada's populati......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mayflower English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It is my impression that the greatest changes have taken place in southern English, presumably under......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A Question and a Quote (in The Written Word) by Richard English
As an ex-British schoolboy may I say that we were all sorts of monstrous things but stuffy? Not in a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: McJob: A new-word controversy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Did he or she really weigh 25 stone! That's pretty big even by US standards! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prents of school dropouts go to jail! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It is rare but does happen. Home tutoring might often be the only way a disabled child, for example,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Prents of school dropouts go to jail! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
These sorts of sanctions have been the law in England for many years (although the law was not alway......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Poetic Read (in The Written Word) by Richard English
That is undoubtedly true of some of his work; it is certainly not true of it all. "Inexpensive prog......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The rule concerning the use of the full stop (period) in abbreviations used to confuse me. However, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Poetic Read (in The Written Word) by Richard English
It will come as no surprise to readers of this board, I know, that I actually like John Betjemen's w......
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