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Discussion Topic  RE: A grammar question (in Potpourri) by Richard English
The COED lists it but suggests its use is jocular. Certainly we would not use it in formal speech in......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In the World Travel Dictionary (published by Columbus and, I blush to say, originally created by me)......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree. It's just one more example of the strange belief that so many people seem to have that is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another Wikipedia question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
In 1938 the British government introduced the Holidays With Pay Act which meant that all workers wer......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Or even electricians' screwdriver since it's a type that is part of the tool kit of most electrician......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The average American has fewer than two legs, speaks more than one language and has 1.4 children. N......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Apostrophe again, sorry. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
There has been much (sprited) discussion about this and I will say only that I agree with Jerry abso......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Another Wikipedia question (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
And of course, Americans wouldn't talk about two weeks' holiday either. It would be two weeks' vacat......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pet Peeves Part 2 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
This is definitely becoming common in US writing but I think it is dangerous.The preposition has an ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Of course, once you're in London it's only around three hours on the train to get to Paris or Brusse......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I was really referring only to PCs and their applications, not to telecoms. It's seems to me that m......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cliches (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Since he was British we jolly well ought to be! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: A limousine steak? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Not a originally a car as such but a style of car body. In the days when many manufacturers made onl......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Isolationism is not necessarily all bad but it does have consequences that its adherents might not b......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I confess I haven't had the nerve to try it! However, that the US government continues to pursue it......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Word misunderstandings of computer neophyes (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In Britain (where the emergency telephone number was invented) we used (and can still use) 999. This......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The office of the data protection registrar (or whatever its latest incarnation is called) still use......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A BBC delicacy! (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The word agenda is the plural of agendum. To call agenda "agendae" is making a plural from a plural.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Oration: types of speechs (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Let us be thankful that is wasn't spelt "speech's"! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The fax preference service is at ......
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