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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: If you're fired, you're de-__ (in Wordplay) by arnie
Would an electrician be ......
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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: Linguists' top phrase in 2004... (in Potpourri) by arnie
None of those phrases given in the article appear to have crossed the Pond yet, with the possible ex......
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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: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by arnie
We mentioned plimsolls earlier in the ......
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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: 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: BLUFFING GAME - REMPLISSAGE (in Wordplay) by arnie
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Discussion Topic  RE: BLUFFING GAME - REMPLISSAGE (in Wordplay) by arnie
I certainly should have guessed it! I knew that the French ......
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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: BLUFFING GAME - REMPLISSAGE (in Wordplay) by arnie
I'll go for 3....
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