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| St. Stephen's Tower (in Potpourri) by Richard English Following my recent post and admission that I was uncertain of the spelling of this well-known Londo...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Slang: sometimes ephemeral; sometimes presistent (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishOver here it means "Frequency Modulation". This is a method of radio wave transmission in which the ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Quid-ity (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishA quid is a pound sterling. The word is not usually used in the plural - it's ten quid, not ten quid...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishOne aspect of human behaviour which is almost a universal truth is that few people consider others' ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishMine too. We are a particularly filthy nation when it comes to littering. Most other European countr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Slang: sometimes ephemeral; sometimes presistent (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard EnglishMy! The world has changed - or maybe it's just different in Cambridge! Richard English... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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Spanish is an honorable descendant of Latin (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishThat's right, of course. I have seen the word specie used (obviously wrongly) in good journals and n...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishIt's always possible to identify the British travellers when using escalators abroad - they will be ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Spanish is an honorable descendant of Latin (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishSadly they didn't go so far as English - which eliminated genders and the dependency on them. Why, ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishReasonably accurate, especially about queues. The London Underground, the world's oldest and (I beli...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI used the word Imperial to indicate that I was referring to British, as opposed to US measures. The...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishNo. On the contrary. In order to finish its fermentation in the bottle it needs to remain at room te...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishJust to clarify, I said that tap was originally used to describe the faucet on a cask - I should per...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishThe words keg and cask have acquired different meanings in UK English in the past fifty years (since...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Pet peeves (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishI suppose it depends on your upbringing as to whether you regard Latin as an obscure language or not...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Valentine's Day -- ah, Love (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard EnglishWhen I was a teenager and, like most young male teenagers, was spending a substantial amount of my t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishSimilarly they will mention humidity, pollen count and sun strength if any of these are likely to be...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Paradigm Paralysis (in Wordplay) by Richard EnglishAs has been discussed many times previously, place names (and trade names too, for that matter) seem...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay
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Degrees of cold (in Potpourri) by Richard EnglishOf course, we have no control over our weather - neither do we have much idea of what it's going to ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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Characters from Charles Dickens (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard EnglishCould I vouchsafe that my postings on this board, especially those in response to others' submission...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum | » Refine Search » New Search |
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