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Discussion Topic  RE: Queue call: "Can I help who's next?" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"Clerk" in UK English, rhymes with "park", not with "perk". This is an eccentricity of pronunciati......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Queue call: "Can I help who's next?" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
And even in jobs where the service is essentially clerical in nature (such as a travel agency) the e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are you an oldtimer? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The fairing is the plastic surround that streamlines modern motorcycles and keeps most of the wind a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are you an oldtimer? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
And for me, motorbikes with kick-starts and no fairing. 80 mph on a 1930 Rudge! Bliss! Richard Engl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
It seems clear from the monogamy thread that human beings are not by nature monogamous, so "dear hun......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Educating kids about words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
You can't be "...a titch negative..." - that's like saying that you're "...a small negative...". Y......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
As I understood it, a man chases a woman, and chases her and chases her until, in the end, she catch......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Educating kids about words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I set an examination once for Travel Agents where one of the questions asked them to calculate earni......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese! (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I didn't suggest Spanish since this phrase is not, of course, a true rhyme. "...pasa..." does not rh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I know that those pursuits that we in England refer to as "Country Sports" are expensive, but I was ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Are you an oldtimer? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Good manners! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese! (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I can't help with the butterfly, but did you know that if you said, in French, "To the water it is t......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I just can't imagine why that one so stuck in my memory! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
It's nearly half a century since my worldly wise friend Paul (or maybe not so worldly wise since I s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a nice voyage, Cheese! (in Wordplay) by Richard English
"Bon voyage, fromage" is, of course, French. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Come ride with me (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This is a misconception. The situation you describe has given rise to the rarely heard term, "hoars......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Come ride with me (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Yes. And the analogy goes further. One drives a carriage and pair or other horsedrawn vehicle. Inde......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tom Lehrer (in Wordplay) by Richard English
I didn't say non-existent, I said rare. And I stick to my guns about that. Tom Lehrer used some very......
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