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RE: Verbing of nouns re-revisited
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This is an interesting example of a verb ("to zip") which is now accepted without question. However,......
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January 26, 2003 22:33
RE: Terms from US football
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"Moving the goal posts" is the only term I have yet understood. Incidentally, the expression "to pu......
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January 25, 2003 09:10
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I know very little about sport but was forced to play Rugby Football at school. Fumbling was a term ......
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January 22, 2003 01:56
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No. We play football - you call it soccer to distinguish from America Football (which is a bit like ......
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January 21, 2003 10:07
RE: Favorite words?
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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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January 21, 2003 07:18
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The Courage Mega-Keggery in Reading has never made an ounce of beer in its entire existence. Courag......
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January 20, 2003 07:03
RE: Terms from US football
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You might be interested to learn that the term is meaningless in the UK (as, I suspect, will be most......
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January 20, 2003 01:49
RE: Favorite words?
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Maybe she actually meant that you were "awful" and didn't realise that this word has other similes t......
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January 14, 2003 05:31
RE: Drink-related words
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I suppose you could always use it to trap slugs and snails in the garden. Richard English...
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January 09, 2003 13:39
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Yes, but the problem is that you'd have had to have drunk the beer! Richard English...
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January 09, 2003 13:34
RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot...
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It is an undoubted truism of humanity that want and necessity have but tenuous links. There are many......
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January 09, 2003 01:25
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This is one of the problems when measuring consumption. A Stein, to my mind, would be a litre glas......
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January 08, 2003 09:21
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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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January 08, 2003 01:53
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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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January 07, 2003 09:18
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Known as the Oxofrd comma here (for similar reasons since it is the house style for both these respe......
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January 07, 2003 07:48
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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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January 07, 2003 07:33
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I agree with what this guide says - which guide is it? The question of whether to add "apostrophe s......
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January 07, 2003 02:23
RE: Drink-related words
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I have today discovered the Hog's Back Brewery's site - ......
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January 06, 2003 05:47
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I'd heard of "the room" from my stepfather (who's from Liverpool) and understood it to be the altern......
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January 06, 2003 03:01
RE: Drink-related words
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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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