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Discussion Topic  RE: The Night Before Christmas -- parody (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Oh yes. It is popular here. And I have read some of the parodies as well - including "'Twas the ni......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Huh? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Apologies for the typo! Now corrected. And yes, it is a suet-based pudding. There is a recipe on ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: America's Apostrophe Catastrophe (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Love the Smith's what, I wonder? Their children? Their dog? Their family? Certainly not their gram......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Huh? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Spotted Dick is a traditional English pudding. It is a heavy suet sponge (usually cylindrical in sha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In fact, although the dipthong is still alive and well as a pronounced sound, the printed conjoined ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Thank you. Now I look at it I can see that it does show both plurals. However, if you go to the thi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mad as hell (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Although it doesn't have the nice ring of contrast between majority and minority, I think I'd have w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A good trick if you can do it (in The Written Word) by Richard English
One of the interesting things about drinking is that the consumption per person increases as the num......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Maybe it does. I do not subscribe to it and cannot comment. However, I was obviously referring to th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Sadly Latin plurals do seem to be under threat, with medium being just the most recent. Agendum is......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mad as hell (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Had I been your boss I'd have asked yo to re-write it to correct its grammar! Quote from the OED: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: America's Apostrophe Catastrophe (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I'm glad we agree. So do I. The belief that Real Ale should be drunk at "room temperature" is just ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: America's Apostrophe Catastrophe (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I have now read the suggested references and am quite unapologetic! They use expressions such as "........
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Discussion Topic  RE: Mad as hell (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I, too, have had this problem but agree that the advent of green boards meant that the earlier expre......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A good trick if you can do it (in The Written Word) by Richard English
If competence were a requisite for keeping a job, neither of our countries would have any politician......
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Discussion Topic  RE: America's Apostrophe Catastrophe (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Many US speakers defend their incorrect apostrophisation of words ending in "s" and even suggest tha......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Plural? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Chicken pox is one disease, of course. However, the spots or pock-marks (or pox) are several and the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word game (in Wordplay) by Richard English
i in tin ting sting esting testing testings I make that 8 without breaking the addition rules! (es......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word game (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I thought the rules only allowed for the addition of a letter at the begining or end of the word - w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Come ride with me (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I don't know how to post a picture here but there is a picture of my Rudge on the Rudge site - ......
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