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Discussion Topic  Truncation Fail! (in Potpourri) by BobHale
My hometown has introduced a new hygiene rating system for restaurants. One restaurant has been give......
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Discussion Topic  Word order (in Potpourri) by BobHale
I recently commented on FB on something a friend posted about COVID. We were discussing the victim b......
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Discussion Topic  A calque/borrowing I have always wondered about. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
A comment in another thread reminded me a a calque/borrowing/Anglicising (you will understand my con......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cabbages (in Potpourri) by BobHale
There was quite a bit of discussion on the idiom. “Chew” was one of many variants....
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Discussion Topic  Hoping you can see these links (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Here's a very international puzzle for you. Why will my American friends be very unlikely to see ac......
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Discussion Topic  Missing double negative? (in The Written Word) by BobHale
This statement is on the internet about the NYT acquisition of wordless:- “ The statement released b......
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Discussion Topic  A talent for understatement (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Russia puts its nuclear forces into a state of high alert. How does Andrew Preston, a Cambridge his......
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Discussion Topic  Cabbages (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Listening to the A Way With Words podcast I was surprised to hear reference to something my Dad used......
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Discussion Topic  RE: coup de grâce (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  RE: coup de grâce (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Incidentally I did find that coup de grace IS sometimes, though rarely, used (in my view erroneously......
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Discussion Topic  RE: coup de grâce (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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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Discussion Topic  RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
This one has cropped up before, probably also in the apprentice. Candidates examining food options f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: coup de grâce (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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Discussion Topic  And the opposite of “plan” is... (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Actually what is the opposite of plan? I ask because Boris’s “living with Covid” plan is to get rid ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: coup de grâce (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Literally it is the "grace blow", the killing blow that puts a dying animal or person out of their m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
Only a bit language related but in this week's episode their idea of "tacky" is seriously at odds wi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Apprentice (UK) is back! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHale
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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Discussion Topic  Improving on Lear (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Edward Lear was of course a wonderful composer of nonsense verse but let's face it, his limericks ar......
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Discussion Topic  What about a little consistency? (in Potpourri) by BobHale
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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Discussion Topic  Discount (in Potpourri) by BobHale
Thanks to government policies lots of people in the Uk are facing huge rises in heating bills that t......
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