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Discussion Topic  RE: Gormless through the French Windows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In his immortal speech to the Oxford Union, Gerard Hoffnung reads out some supposed replies from Tyr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gormless through the French Windows (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A gormless person is one who is rather stupid or ineffectual. Possibly one lacking in serious purpos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The latest apostrophe abuse ! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I think I'd ask what the sign is supposed to mean since, as it is written, it means nothing at all. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb answers to quiz show questions (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Not only logical but also correct. The sentence, with its exclamation mark, is quoted and thus insid......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Obscure extra meanings of common words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Isn't it "lights", as in "leaded lights"? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
One of the major differences between pre-school and elementary (infact) school, and later learnig is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Dumb answers to quiz show questions (in Potpourri) by Richard English
My simple rule of thumb is to ask, "Is the quotation in the sentence or is the sentence in the quota......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Indeed. And my own commentary on the LD message boards about the poor use of English (amongst the tu......
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Discussion Topic  Literacy versus numeracy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In the UK there is a Government-backed online learning initiative called Learn Direct for which I am......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes. I suppose I should have said the respective converses. However, since neither of the converses,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In England all ladies are women and all gentlemen are men. The converse is not true. Richard Engli......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Signs of the times (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The saints be praised we have, so far, been spared this particular excess! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
We will have to disagree on this. To recite another's composition does not make it ones own. It migh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chaordic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It wasn't the connotation, negative or otherwise, that I objected to. It was just that there are too......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gender Question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
But remember I said "...I am reminded of a story about the response of a female to the approaches of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's urinalysis of this sentence? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Actually no. "Kind" is used in this definition in the sense of "type" as in "...Budweiser is believe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Censorship Revisited (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Whether or not censorship is ever justifiable, the Internet has now made it impossible to enforce - ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's urinalysis of this sentence? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I confess I was following up on the typo suggestion and hadn't checked the dictionary. The OED says......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chaordic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Loosely translated to business, it can be thought of as an organization that harmoniously ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Science concepts (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
If not controlled then certainly taken into consideration, yes. Which is why it's an important effec......
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