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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
As I said, Bullshit baffles brains and it's quite a while since I've seen a passage containing so mu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Oh, I don't know. It seems an easy enough concept to grasp and a simple enough coinage (i.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I suppose the real moral of this tale is that Bullshit, as ever, baffles brains! Talk a load of uni......
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Discussion Topic  RE: metastory (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Well,the prfix "Meta-" usually has to do with change of position or situation (such as in metamorpho......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Phrases from French (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...I just meant a funny, upper-class English public schoolboy construction like Bertie Wooste......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Special Word of the Moment (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I don't know how it is in the USA but in England we might preen ourselves - physically or figurative......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Remind me, when I have a little more time, to tell you what W C Fields had to say about water......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...I found this water calculator online that shows that I need ten 12-oz glasses of water dai......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...It's a long-standing puzzle, in fact..." Indeed. I was trying to put the matter simply bu......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "... Oh...the Brits don't pronounce their "h's" according to him, so what he was saying "Greyh......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "into" vs. "unto" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
According to the OED, "unto" is identical in meaning to "to", except as an preface to the infinitive......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...The waitress listened closely to my extended recitation and then politely advised me that ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...then I suppose you have to go back to when the first culture invented the ball. Most sport......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...Therefore, it makes it quite logical that you don't know from where the different sports e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "less than enamored" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Generalisations are risky, I know, but I think it's fair to say the the "average" American will be m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote, "...the only one here who hadn't heard of him..." If by "here" you mean the USA, then that's......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Sorry about Xerxes. That was just a typo. And I disagree with the practice, now very common in the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Well, I personally have standardized on the following rule: a simple apostrophe for the po......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Imply vs. Infer (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Erasmus' Encomium or Erasmus's Encomium? I have seen both versions....
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