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Discussion Topic  RE: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Yes, but only a mediocre manager would send anyone to it . . . unless it was in Hawaii and......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Now that sounds like a great workshop! Why do I have to spend gadzillion hours learning ab......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I meant that the expression "state of play" means "how are things at the moment". "State of the art"......
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Discussion Topic  RE: New Special Words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...One of my colleagues was describing a fellow colleague to me (the latter wears short skirt......
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Discussion Topic  RE: New Special Words (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Canoodle is not uncommon in UK English, though it's probably rather an old-fashioned term these days......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limericks, continued (in The Written Word) by Richard English
It's good now to have a librarian An expert in matters grammarian But the Limerick rhyme Could take ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, as you no know, it's very different from "state of the art"! It simply means "how are things a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It's a sporting reference, the state of play meaning the current situation in a cricket match. Remem......
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Discussion Topic  Spelling (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On OEDILF the question has arisen about creating plurals of parts of speech. I wanted to refer to se......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Changing meanings... (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...However, the most interesting discussion was about the mundane word 'nice.' ..." The word......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Just put on an English accent and nobody will know...!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...(Any PJWodehouse devotes here? Remember Bertie Wooster? That's the more usual spelling, vi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Terms of International Relations (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...*A number of writers (exampls below) state that "illegal combatant" is merely a term conve......
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Discussion Topic  Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There has been some recent discussion on the OEDILF board to do with the pronunciation of certain wo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In the south of England it's: Gigabyte with a hard g; mauve rhymes exactly with with stove; err rhy......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Italian (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Could I say that I like Annabel Crabb's piece - for all its journalistic style. Does she write for a......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Communication: the Internet revolution (in The Written Word) by Richard English
To answer this question we need first to look at the lessons of the past to see what changes the inv......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...Corinthian leather in the 1975 Chrysler Cordoba..." You'd have thought that Spanish leath......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "New and Improved" (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Do you think that the English meat dish, faggots, would sell better in the USA were it do be called ......
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Discussion Topic  "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
On the beer bpard recently someone said, "...But if we're choosing months, I get dibs on November! .......
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