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Discussion Topic  RE: Verbing of nouns re-revisited (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This is an interesting example of a verb ("to zip") which is now accepted without question. However,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms from US football (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
"Moving the goal posts" is the only term I have yet understood. Incidentally, the expression "to pu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms from US football (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
I know very little about sport but was forced to play Rugby Football at school. Fumbling was a term ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms from US football (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
No. We play football - you call it soccer to distinguish from America Football (which is a bit like ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Favorite words? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
How can you speak of Fuller's 1845 - a beer of amazing strength and depth of flavour in the same pos......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Favorite words? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The Courage Mega-Keggery in Reading has never made an ounce of beer in its entire existence. Courag......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms from US football (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
You might be interested to learn that the term is meaningless in the UK (as, I suspect, will be most......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Favorite words? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Maybe she actually meant that you were "awful" and didn't realise that this word has other similes t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suppose you could always use it to trap slugs and snails in the garden. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes, but the problem is that you'd have had to have drunk the beer! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It is an undoubted truism of humanity that want and necessity have but tenuous links. There are many......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This is one of the problems when measuring consumption. A Stein, to my mind, would be a litre glas......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
When I debated this subject originally I said I had yet to find any style book, US or UK, that sanct......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Did they define "a drink"? If they meant a half of beer then I binge drink at least once a week! If......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Known as the Oxofrd comma here (for similar reasons since it is the house style for both these respe......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
As I said, if you stick to the "usual" rule, you will be right 99% of the time. Indeed, you could pr......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I agree with what this guide says - which guide is it? The question of whether to add "apostrophe s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I have today discovered the Hog's Back Brewery's site - ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I'd heard of "the room" from my stepfather (who's from Liverpool) and understood it to be the altern......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Drink-related words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A yard of Ale is a specially designed glass a yard (3 feet) long which holds 2.5 Imperial pints (tha......
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