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Discussion Topic  RE: "false friends" (in Potpourri) by arnie
Journalists , in particular, have a way of calling a person an intellectual as shorthand for "ivory ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Is this offensive? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
I wouldn't be offended, but I'm not easily offended anyway. Out of curiosity, do you happen to kno......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing game word - Impignorate (in Wordplay) by arnie
I thought I knew it, but can't see it in the daffynitions. I'll go with 7. then....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by arnie
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by arnie
Yeahbut... My point was that few right-minded people nowadays approve of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
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Discussion Topic  RE: Where out of this World (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Speaking of Oz, there is also ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Have a Nice Day! (in Potpourri) by arnie
It's not used over here, apart from by staff at MacDonalds, who, since they are under orders to use ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Neck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
"Neck" can also mean "audacity", especially in "brass neck". Interesting that other body parts can b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Oxford comma (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
As Michael Quinion says, he would normally not use the Oxford/Harvard/serial comma. However, since h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: sea change (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Hmmm. I can't say that I've noticed that use of the phrase is any more common recently. I'll keep an......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by arnie
Interesting. Which side of the argument was the author of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: bed clothing (in Potpourri) by arnie
Maybe this is a British thing? Like Bob and Richard, I don't wear pyjamas normally, reserving them o......
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Discussion Topic  RE: ONLIEST (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
CW's use appears in ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Not sarcasm; not irony ... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Henry Fielding was a master of irony, and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Neck" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
Our word (from the French) ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Not sarcasm; not irony ... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
I say it's irony of the highest order. What makes you think otherwise?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: like a broken record (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fugly (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
I've never heard it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not used here....
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