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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  RE: Panopticon Effect (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Next time I'm in Chicago you must show me where the Western Electric Hawthorne works are (or used to......
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Discussion Topic  RE: How many syllables in "Don't spoil the oil"?? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Bugs Bunny pronounces such words with two syllable, "...OK Mac - where's the fy-er..." I don't know......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "... whereas a "quad" can be a "quad bike" or a place where people gather in a courtyard, some......
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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: Or is it just me? (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I don't know whether you have an equivalent in the USA but in the UK we have the Plain English Campa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I think that what I am trying to say is that I don't try to take sides where there is dispute. Where......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Ah, that's why people like wafflers, middle-of-the-roaders, and fence-sitters so much. I s......
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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: Dipthong pronunciation question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Diphthong, Richard; it's diphthong..." Whoops! That'll learn me to check proper next time......
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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: 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: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
This discussion on school slang reminds me of another term we used which was "fains" or "fainites" (......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Fantastic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...People, especially the younger ones, use hyperbole far too much. ..." I suspect it's a ki......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Dibs" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I've only ever heard the verb declined as if its infinitive were "To bags", not "To Bag". Oxford sug......
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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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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
This explains the whole story very well. Incidentally, this is a good example of how the Bible can ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Quote "...What comes to mind when we hear "Samaritan" ??..." These days we think of someone good an......
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