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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: 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: 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: "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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Discussion Topic  RE: Epitaths (in Wordplay) by Richard English
So as not to cause it a paroxysm, I will modify any dubious words myself. However, my point is tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2 (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Most the world's best known brands are American and worth millions to their owners. I have not been......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Junking conjunctions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
And what, pray, is wrong with using a conjunction at the beginning of a sentence? Also, why should c......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chit-Chat (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Indeed it is - but it is supposedly for the speaker's ears only. Hamlet's most famous soliloquy is a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Your bonus word for the day is: (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The sadness of it is that the word "gay" is not a simile for "happy". The concept conveyed by the wo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anybody had a good paroxysm lately? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I went to the Texas stand at the World Travel Market and was accosted by a large man in a large hat ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chit-Chat (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have always assumed that a soliloquy could be private whereas a monologue anticipated an audience.......
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