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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...What are high-heeled shoes called them?..." They are called (and wait for this)...high he......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pumping for information (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
At school I called them plimsolls....
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...BTW, the dictionary contains both spellings, "forfend" and "forefend."..." Another proble......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Forfend is correc; my original posting contained a typo. Insofar as the use of language is concerne......
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Discussion Topic  The Oxford comma (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In fact, although forfend is archaic in the UK (although I would use it when speaking to my friend S......
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
My COED says: Brit. Slang. 1. Sink a ship (or its crew) 2. Defeat or ruin (a plan etc) 3. Kill. 19t......
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Scupper means "to deliberately sink a vessel". And I do, I agree, mention Cuba on occasions to my A......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cosmology (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Maybe they want to regulate the universe. After all, it's so inconvenient in many ways right now - r......
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...I think more effective and better-educated nurses, who work in a collaborative way with ph......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gestures (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...In the latter case, I always find myself backing up and backing up until I hit the wall!........
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Remember, we live in a "demand-driven" society and that system seems likely very soon to replace the......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Gestures (in Potpourri) by Richard English
There are several books on this topic, the one by Desmond Morris entitled "Bodytalk: The Meaning of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...we can't say that because someone crosses the Atlantic they have to start spelling words d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote, "...Let's say I had a job in London and my kids went to public schools there, or whatever you......
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Poll  RE: Ambition (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Read "The Peter Principle" for an amusing insight into one man's views about promotion and ambition....
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The OED prefers the "ize" ending but many, including me, prefer the "ise" ending. Either is acceptab......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Banned? Barred? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Church of England, I understand....
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by Richard English
As I have said previously, BBB!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: sophia (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Wow. What verbiage! I see they're truly International - they are in far away Canada as well as the ......
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