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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: Humorous lines (in Wordplay) by Richard English
The Jayson Blair story was covered in the UK. I confess, though, when I first saw the headline, "Bla......
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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: 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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this magic?? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Misplaced modifiers are always good for a laugh! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Beer and apostrophes (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's no mystery! Bateman's slogan is "Good Honest Ales" and the lettering must simply have been mis......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A turbo-jet is the normal type of jet engine where the incoming air is compressed by a turbine, mixe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sophister (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I had never heard of sophister (although I knew of sophistry). As it seems to have a scholastic con......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another Wikipedia question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In 1938 the British government introduced the Holidays With Pay Act which meant that all workers wer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I only make this point if it's true! After all, the Americans invented quite a lot as well - the sa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Turbine (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Gas or steam turbines are what comes to my mind. Parsons (a Brit) invented the steam turbine; Whittl......
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