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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have checked with my friend Stewart (a linguophile who hasn't yet visited this board) and he confi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double Dactyls again (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Quote "...While Kalleh has occasionally chastised me for critiquing the work of others..." I won't ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "... the Brits don't capitalize an entire acronym as the Americans do ..." As I understand it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Epicaricacy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Indeed. There are many variations of the consonant "r". I didn't mean to suggest that there are only......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Epicaricacy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote " ...American English /r..." I can't be sure what is meant by this but I can say that the Ger......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Epicaricacy (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...how is freude pronounced? One syllable, or two?..." Two. German is phonetic....
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is (or is not) a "word"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I'm glad that's cleared up, then. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Oddly enough the ONLY place where I have been served Ouzo without ice was in Athens - in a bar in Co......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, that depends on what you mean by Europe! Europe is a continent, not a country, and any two Eur......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A grammar question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Whoopee! Fight the good fight! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A grammar question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Maybe in Cambridge. But in Oxford the meaning is still shown as it ever was. I intend to fight for ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Double Dactyls again (in The Written Word) by Richard English
We have had them for many years. The term was known even before the Beatles recorded a song about "R......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A grammar question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The OED says that, in the UK at least, the use of "comprise" as a simile for "compose", "...is to be......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Indeed. My comment was tongue in cheek! I had noticed this strange US desire for ice. When I staye......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluff game 2/27/04 (in Wordplay) by Richard English
For the record, once a year I run a "Call my Bluff" session at the Simpletons Public Speaking club. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The slang term for a cigarette in England is (or was, since it is now more or less obselete) fag, no......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The Language Police (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I was there a few years ago - but I can't quite see the connection between Cuba and polical correctn......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Are there really nations so deprived that they don't get to eat Toad-in-the hole? You'll be tellin......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural Differences 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I hadn't realised that US pies were usually sweet. We have both sweet an savoury pies here and meat ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: February 29th (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
A leap year actually should occur only every 3 and twenty-four/twenty fifths years. As it can't we h......
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