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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: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Of course you may. If you wish to align yourself with certain emergent nations whose flags do not co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
White is argent (silver). I don't know why there are two reds. I can only report what I know; I wasn......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote: "...There is no such word as channele. ..." As I said earlier, the suggestion that there was......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote: "...At a very early age I decided that if ever I was able to found my own nation, that my fl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
"Seeing as how this entry uses the archaic spelling of "channel" (as in "Ye Olde English Channele")"......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Funniest holiday present (in Wordplay) by Richard English
The expression "vacation" is understood here but it's just not used. Many of our public holidays ar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Funniest holiday present (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Quote: "...What do you call the gifts Jewish people exchange at Hannukah in Britain? ..." I confess......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Since the area of continent of Asia, ON ITS OWN, exceeds that of all the Americas (North, South and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Funniest holiday present (in Wordplay) by Richard English
In the UK we don't give holiday presents - that would be the same as if you, in the US, were to give......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Although North and South America are commonly referred to a separate continents (and I agree that th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: I know yer out there, I kin hear ya breathin'! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Another interesting fact. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brit speak anyone? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
As I understand it, the original meaning of the term "bodger" is that of a maker of chairs - the tra......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thanksgiving (in The Written Word) by Richard English
There is no editing facility on the FOTA board so we all have to live with our mistakes! Having sai......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Thanksgiving (in The Written Word) by Richard English
The apostrophe is a perfectly simple puntuation mark - it's just a question of knowing the rules for......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Brit speak anyone? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In UK English "U" is usually pronounced as "yew" or "u" (as in "up"). "W" is pronouced as in "wick".......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Besides insane..... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I very much doubt it. There could be a word for a man who talks to himself, a woman who talks to he......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gossip (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
According to the OED "gossip" did have an earlier meaning of Godparent, from the old English "godsib......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are you an oldtimer? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In marketing terms there is a difference. A customer is a person or organisation that buys somethin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are you an oldtimer? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Interestingly Rolls-Royce fitted 8-track systems until around 1978 since they considered that they g......
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