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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Never married? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
That's exactly what I meant. You didn't imagine for a moment that I was advocating the use of a plur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Chit-Chat (in Potpourri) by Richard English
That's far better than a boss I once had who only wanted to monologue! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Never married? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Don't confuse accuracy with style. It's quite possible for a construction to be accurate, but offens......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Never married? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Not wrong but it can look clumsy. Another such instance is when you have a succession of brackets ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sheer Enlightenment (in The Written Word) by Richard English
A Bud Lite drinker? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Water, water everywhere (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A weir is an old English word that means either a dam or a compound created in a stream to trap fish......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On a car it's a hood; on a head it's a hat. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ridiculous Notice (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Why the complexity? What's wrong with "Please use the other door"? Why explain? Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
For exactly the same reason that the British say "petrol" and the Americans say "gasoline"! Or that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer and apostrophes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Ask anyone who has survived a pint of US Budweiser, which is about as dishonest an ale as I can thin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer and apostrophes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It seems to proves that Bateman's are also using traditional signwriters and compositers, does it no......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Republicans are a well-intentioned group who believe that an elected leader is better than a heredit......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
So the Americans don't understand irony? How very ironic! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes. It has an electric starter, just like a car. They are geared to run at a higher speed, of cours......
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