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Discussion Topic  RE: the @ sign (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
One of the problems is that the USA, in the form of its government is a bully! It is particularly un......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I am quite unrepentant. If you add water to barley and crush it all you'll get is a kind of dough. Y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Although beer is our national drink, it is still considered "lower class". The top people drink cha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Signs of the times (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I was unable to get onto the site yesterday otherwise I'd have made the same point. And, just to for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A right to something "compulsory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I realise that "fall" was a perfectly respectable word in UK English at one time. However, like so m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Humorous lines (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I think I'd have not bothered with the war or the farm relief commission! Am I alone in my view tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A right to something "compulsory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This expression is sometimes used to denote any corrupted form. It is not unique to language and cer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British Pubs (in Potpourri) by Richard English
For the benefit of foreigners - and especially those who will shortly be visiting our sceptred isles......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British Pubs (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Stonehenge is quite a jaunt from London. Stick to the capital for your first visit. After all, you......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A right to something "compulsory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The more so it you start speaking about "falls". That's when we trip up and lose our balance. We ha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British Pubs (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This is an excellent summary but there is one change that is presently afoot about which visitors ne......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A right to something "compulsory"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
These are just one of the devices that we, in the UK, use to increase the subtelty of our communicat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is there a word for it? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I assumed that a "decapitated head" was a "headless head" - and that's an oxymoron. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Mortar can indeed contain cement. It just doesn't have to, that's all. Incidentally, cement can be......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Not necessarily. Traditional lime mortar is not cement, nor need it contain it. The reason why mort......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is there a word for it? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suggest that "decapitated head" is oxymoronic. You can only decapitate a body, surely. Richard En......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciation of interesting words... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
At the Amberly Chalk Pits Museum there is an exhibition of concrete artifacts (the chalkpit used to ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Hedge Rage" (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I did check to see that this story was not printed on April 1st...! Hedgeline? Well, maybe. 4000 pa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cyberninny Strikes Again ! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have a contact in Denmark who collects corporate ballpoint pens (he now has many thousand). I won......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anybody had a good paroxysm lately? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Apart, of course, from the sexual discrimination implicit in this term, is there not also a danger t......
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