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QI (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThe latest episode of QI features a LOT of language related stuff. You can find it ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri From my favourite movies podcast (in Potpourri) by BobHaleAnother podcast that I listen to is the Kermode and Mayo film review podcast (which incorporates the...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Remember the "zebra" controversy? (in Potpourri) by BobHaleThe few of you still around will certainly remember the furore on the board about the "Mr Ed was a Z...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Well !!! (in Potpourri) by BobHaleYou know those annoying ads that pop up during YouTube videos? I just had one guaranteeing "Perfect ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri I know we discussed it before but (in Potpourri) by BobHaleOver at that FB group that my old teacher started they are currently decrying the use of "due to" in...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Recipe (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI was looking for recipes for onion bhaji (I know how to make them, it couldn't be easier, but I wan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri The Apprentice (UK) is back! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAnd it has its usual crop of seriously deluded, self-aggrandising competitors (which of course the s...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Nostalgia (in Potpourri) by BobHaleGoing through all those old posts has made me feel quite nostalgic. Of course this modern nostalgia ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Just call me Nostradamus (in Potpourri) by BobHaleHere's a post I made in April 2007. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri How appropriate (in Potpourri) by BobHaleIn one of my old posts there was a mention of the Discworld Librarian who is, as I am sure you know,...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri Sometimes singular "they" doesn't work (in Potpourri) by BobHaleWe have talked about the use of "they" as a singular pronoun many times and as I have often stated i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri An old joke but an apposite one (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI just saw a clip on YouTube of an American Senator saying people shouldn’t take the vaccine because...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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From a story Story Set on December 27 (part 1) (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleI don't know if it's a word that's just not used in the US but Nipper is an extremely common word ov...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum biscuits (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI thought that I’d do you a little quiz. A quiz about biscuits. Of course what I mean by a biscuit i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri
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From a story Story Set on December 27 (part 1) (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHaleI have a feeling that I may have heard it in other contexts but can't think of any right at the mome...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Rhymezone peculiartity (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAs rhymezone is an American site I'll throw this one open to the floor. I wanted rhymes for "dirty"...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words Same meaning? Sensible objection? Or am I right? (in The Written Word) by BobHaleThere is a FB group, run by my old English teacher, that I joined purely in a spirit of bringing bal...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word Cousins (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobHaleAfter some recent comments here regarding family relationships I realised that although I have alway...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words
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From a story Story Set on December 27 (part 1) (in The Vocabulary Forum) by BobHale...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum Words of the Year (in Potpourri) by BobHaleI've been looking around at the words of the year and unsurprisingly a lot of them are about the pan...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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