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Discussion Topic  RE: Words for grandma/grandpa (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Our older son referred to his grandmothers as "grandma green car" and "grandma blue car". Then gra......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sit-coms (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Arthur English (he never used a stage name) was a very popular comedian in the 1950s. He played a lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slipstream (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Not unless magnetism or gravity are doing the job. "Suction" works only when there is an area of low......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sit-coms (in Potpourri) by Richard English
He was in probably half the shows - the later ones. He was Mr Harman, the janitor/odd-job man who al......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slipstream (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's an attractive notion but it's not actually true. The additional effort required by the lead cyc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slipstream (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...I listened to that episode of Car Talk, and was surprised that the crazy Magliazzi borther......
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Poll  RE: Quiz about diagnonal (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I agree with Arnie Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slipstream (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In fact, although it's not a completely free ride, there is an overall reduction in resistance. The ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...you count it, you'd have to count every island in the world, ..." Only if they were part ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A word for "separated territory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
...and the Hawaiian Islands Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A second quiz (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Sorry to be a damp squib, but isn't this virtually impossible to play on line? After all, anyone can......
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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: Tom Swifties (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I had assumed that the descriptive word had to qualify the verb describing Tom's actions - in the mo......
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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: Egregious (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I read today (although I haven't checked the quotation for accuracy) that the OED carries 14,070 dif......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Egregious (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...First, I just don't see how anyone say that 6 letters (2 syllables) is significantly diffe......
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