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Discussion Topic  RE: All mixed up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Interestingly enough, Cheddar Cheese is probably the most maligned of all cheeses since it is a simp......
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Discussion Topic  RE: At the risk of reopening old wounds (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Of course not. And you wouldn't need to since the word does not exist. I suspect that the TES was p......
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Discussion Topic  RE: All mixed up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Of course, it would be uncharacteristicly non-chauvinistic of me were I not to point out that Stilto......
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Discussion Topic  RE: At the risk of reopening old wounds (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Seems fine to me. I never did get an answer from any one of those who prefer the construction "bos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's today? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Not so much in England but there is still bitter Catholic/Protestant rivalry in Northern Ireland. R......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Poetry words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Of course, much modern poetry doesn't use rhyme at all. Indeed, I asked the tutor at a poetry evenin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Why can't the English .......... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I like Oscar Wilde's quote in the Canterville Ghost in which he said of Mrs Otis, an American who wa......
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Discussion Topic  What's today? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have a calender that shows an old English word or expression for every day and also, where possibl......
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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  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: Quid-ity (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A quid is a pound sterling. The word is not usually used in the plural - it's ten quid, not ten quid......
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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: 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: 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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Discussion Topic  RE: Logomachy: Valuable geographical names of foodstuffs (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It was, of course, the French (that most chauvinistic of nations), who insisted that sparkling wine ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Valentine's Day -- ah, Love (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
When I was a teenager and, like most young male teenagers, was spending a substantial amount of my t......
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