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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: 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: Eponyms of Americans (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I've never heard the terms "Mae Wests" used to denote a pair of thrupennies, I have to say. Richard......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are we still human? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Forgive my ignorance but I thought that DDT had been universally banned many years ago. Indeed, I r......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I shall be writing a letter. (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I wish you luck, Bob, with your letter. In my experience the otherwise excellent BBC is probably jus......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences: article in The Economist (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Missionary zeal. That's a very good analogy. The USA has taken on the mantle that the British had ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A sorry tale (in The Written Word) by Richard English
This thread continued with Rollason getting ever more cross but really he didn't see the point. I wa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: V.D. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There's a story of a doctor who had to tell a young male patient that he was infected with a venerea......
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Discussion Topic  A sorry tale (in The Written Word) by Richard English
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) recently held its annual Convention in Palma. A disg......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Language Police (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It's all part of the mistaken belief that to promote a measure of social and financial equality you ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Does the Big Read encourage literacy ? (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Most British users prefer the "ise" construction of such words as "criticise" although the OED prefe......
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