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A poet for her generation (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI have just been reading about the controversy about Beyonce changing an offensive lyric in one of h...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Pity we have no New Zealanders on the board (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleI watched a New Zealand episode of The Apprentice and I have a word usage question that I don't thin...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Preposterous (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWhy doesn't "preposterous" just mean "now"?... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Limerick Game : Wales (in Wordplay) by BobHaleSo the winner of the game was Bob Hale's Who must choose the next place for your tales Will it be Ka...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay And you have been a DJ for how long? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleSomeone sent me a link to an episode of Weakest Link. (I don't know why.) The first question was "I...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A good trick if you can do it (in Potpourri) by BobHaleYouTube recommendations just offered one from the BBC captioned "SAS Unit repeatedly killed Afghan d...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri An actual language question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleI know there aren't many people around these days to weigh in with an opinion but I have a question ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words In space no one can hear you translate (in The Written Word) by BobHaleAs I do most of my viewing either on line or in the cinema these days I never get to see the bootleg...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Open to interpretation (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOne of the phrases beloved of Boris Johnson and used over and over in his tenure - to the extent tha...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Boris Johnson's Speech (in The Written Word) by BobHaleI have put this in The Written Word because he was reading out a prepared speech... a speech which I...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word sod all (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleI recently used the title phrase in a FB post. Then I wondered if it's used outside the Uk. Is it? (...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words I am not certain who I am quoting... (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWithout going into specifics - because they are unnecessary - when I see 99% of the comments on the ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Not perfect (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAs you know I am a staunch defender of usage trumps everything but everyone has some bête noire that...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri So how do I send one of those? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleFrom the website of Britain's most popular talk radio station. "In text messages the disgraced te...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Nothing to do with language but (in Potpourri) by BobHaleam I the only one who thinks one of the most evil and reviled men in America, price gouger Martin Sh...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI don't know how many of you have heard about the British Government's cunning plan to turn immigrat...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Tigger warning (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI was going to post in my trigger warning thread the rather silly question "Does Winnie the Pooh com...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Caution: May contain trigger warnings (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI've just seen some posts complaining very stridently that a University gave a trigger warning to a...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri A Song For The Jubilee (in The Written Word) by BobHaleI'm sure anyone British who writes poems or songs will have had a go at something for the jubilee. I...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word The Tiffany problem (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI ran across this on a podcast I listen to - The Allusionist - and found it pretty interesting. The ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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