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Discussion Topic  RE: "I leart how things are spelt". (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The "nt" construction is very common in UK English but not in US English. I do not know how the alte......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A challenge! (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I come back from Egypt, and what do I see? A posting from CJ that says, as I quote, "...the shortest......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cockney (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote: "Go" = "Scapa Flow" or "Scapa" is correct. Scapa Flow is where the Royal Navy has a large ba......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The definition in the beer dictionary is quite correct although less comprehensive than my own. Ric......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The world's funniest joke? (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Did you know that, in the entire panoply of Sherlock Holmes stories, that phrase was NEVER used? Ri......
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Discussion Topic  RE: from today's newspaper (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Aspirin, although originally a German brand name, is now used to denote any medicine made from acety......
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Discussion Topic  RE: from today's newspaper (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have a particular aversion to this and never use the expression "hoover" when I mean vacuum cleane......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A foot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Excellent. You must also be a very slim woman - unless you left the car via the sunshine roof! In f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A foot (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I had always assumed that was why they couldn't park in confined spaces. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It's men with that lady from Salisbury - she acts in that way just to scalisbury! Since a bliceste......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Since nobody has commented upon my "deadly cuco." Limerick I have to assume that you all found it si......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Proununciations (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "In the UK paw, pour and pore are homophones" Whe I was in primary school (I would have been......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "Indeed, I would further suggest that form and four are not actually rhymes" I know they're ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
At a series of drama classes I attended recently we were set the task of writing some poetry. I resp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I won a holiday to Greece some years ago when a travel company posted a very poor limerick and chall......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Malaprops? in Wordcraft? (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Why not just call them Goldwynisms? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  Limericks (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The posting in the Rainbows thread prompted me to start a thread about that underrated verse form, t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Malaprops? in Wordcraft? (in Wordplay) by Richard English
The Goldwyn examples you cite are not, strictly speaking, malapropisms. A malapropism (from the cha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Your confusion is understandable. There are four quite different words spelt gill, and there are tw......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This is one recipe where the instruction, "weigh out the ingredients carefully" applies in full meas......
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