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Discussion Topic  RE: Different pronunciations for the same letters (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In Spanish this is an adjective with meanings having the sense of "wild"; "courageous"; "rugged" etc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
And, if it's a man looking at the place, not even then! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The fact that I spent much of my earlier working life as a travel agent does help when it comes to t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
There was, at one time, a company called Daedelus aviation (or, as we in the trade called it, "Dead ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I suppose what he should have done was to tell him not to fly too close to the sea - that would have......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
He wasn't that clever because he allowed his son, Icarus, to fly too near to the sun and the heat me......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Epi- words (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
That epicure dining at Crewe was drinking his mouse-soup in lieu of the meal in his own suite at Bir......
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Discussion Topic  RE: For Comment (in The Written Word) by Richard English
My poetic efforts have been mainly restricted to Limericks - although I did many years ago write a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Importance of Punctuation (in Potpourri) by Richard English
A woman without her man is nothing. In tests it has been found that men tend to read this sentence ......
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Discussion Topic  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......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Logomachy: Valuable geographical names of foodstuffs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I was wondering when somebody would ask... The thread was about Arabic words in English and shufti ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slang: sometimes ephemeral; sometimes presistent (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Over here it means "Frequency Modulation". This is a method of radio wave transmission in which the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Logomachy: Valuable geographical names of foodstuffs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
If this is true then it seems likely that there are more Arabic words in English! Maybe someone wou......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Logomachy: Valuable geographical names of foodstuffs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In fact, I suspect the phonetic languages are the norm and non-phonetic languages are the exception.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Slang: sometimes ephemeral; sometimes presistent (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
My! The world has changed - or maybe it's just different in Cambridge! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spanish is an honorable descendant of Latin (in Potpourri) by Richard English
That's right, of course. I have seen the word specie used (obviously wrongly) in good journals and n......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Spanish is an honorable descendant of Latin (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Sadly they didn't go so far as English - which eliminated genders and the dependency on them. Why, ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I used the word Imperial to indicate that I was referring to British, as opposed to US measures. The......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Warning, in hono(u)r of Richard (in Potpourri) by Richard English
No. On the contrary. In order to finish its fermentation in the bottle it needs to remain at room te......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Logomachy: Valuable geographical names of foodstuffs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Although I couldn't give one example of vocabulary from baseball I am proud to say that I do know wh......
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