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Truncation Fail!
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My hometown has introduced a new hygiene rating system for restaurants. One restaurant has been give......
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March 20, 2022 20:52
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I recently commented on FB on something a friend posted about COVID. We were discussing the victim b......
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March 18, 2022 21:18
A calque/borrowing I have always wondered about.
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A comment in another thread reminded me a a calque/borrowing/Anglicising (you will understand my con......
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March 08, 2022 18:07
RE: Cabbages
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There was quite a bit of discussion on the idiom. “Chew” was one of many variants....
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March 07, 2022 00:49
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Here's a very international puzzle for you. Why will my American friends be very unlikely to see ac......
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March 05, 2022 04:10
Missing double negative?
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This statement is on the internet about the NYT acquisition of wordless:- “ The statement released b......
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March 01, 2022 05:10
A talent for understatement
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Russia puts its nuclear forces into a state of high alert. How does Andrew Preston, a Cambridge his......
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February 28, 2022 20:20
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Listening to the A Way With Words podcast I was surprised to hear reference to something my Dad used......
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February 28, 2022 18:42
RE: coup de grâce
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February 25, 2022 18:19
RE: coup de grâce
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Incidentally I did find that coup de grace IS sometimes, though rarely, used (in my view erroneously......
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February 25, 2022 18:13
RE: coup de grâce
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I don't think that would be any better. A coup d'etat is literally a "blow of the state" or a "blow ......
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February 25, 2022 17:59
RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back!
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This one has cropped up before, probably also in the apprentice. Candidates examining food options f......
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February 25, 2022 17:46
RE: coup de grâce
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February 22, 2022 20:39
And the opposite of “plan” is...
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Actually what is the opposite of plan? I ask because Boris’s “living with Covid” plan is to get rid ......
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February 21, 2022 16:23
RE: coup de grâce
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Literally it is the "grace blow", the killing blow that puts a dying animal or person out of their m......
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February 20, 2022 23:06
RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back!
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Only a bit language related but in this week's episode their idea of "tacky" is seriously at odds wi......
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February 18, 2022 01:51
RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back!
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I think that’s the problem. Quite a lot of people do mispronounce it. As for thinking of you know wh......
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February 17, 2022 22:13
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Edward Lear was of course a wonderful composer of nonsense verse but let's face it, his limericks ar......
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February 15, 2022 19:06
What about a little consistency?
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Here is a message just posted on a FB group in my home town. I wonder why half the plurals are ok wh......
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February 15, 2022 05:03
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Thanks to government policies lots of people in the Uk are facing huge rises in heating bills that t......
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