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Discussion Topic  RE: Announcerese (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
See here ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Announcerese (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Although there have been railways (and plateways - where the flange is on the rail, not the wheel) f......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Announcerese (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
"At a stand" is UK railway jargon for stopped. There is a mass of rail jargon and, as Wordnerd says,......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Maybe this US oversensitivity explains why rugger has never become a popular game in the USA. Richa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I suppose it's a commentary on the respective sizes of the USA and the UK that the twin villages of ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Lint (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I learnt yesterday from an article in the "Radio Times" (arguably on of the UK's best written magazi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
Of all the multi-national megabrewers there are, so far as I am concerened Guinness is the only one ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Regional Insults (in Potpourri) by Richard English
It is a strange fact that the Northerners (say north of Birmingham) are very concerned about what th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Cultural differences (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In the UK a Company Secretary is a very exhalted position - right up there with the Managing Directo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I haven't tried many Japanese beers but those I've tried are just identikit beers. Remember, in most......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I can claim to be the originator of a term that I have now seen used elsewhere - catapostrophe - an ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Irony (in The Written Word) by Richard English
I drank some Texan beer once - at the Texas stand in the World Travel Market. The large man in a lar......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Quotations (in The Written Word) by Richard English
And the economist says that there is a danger of deflation so we'll devalue the glass by making it h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I forecast that both coins will come out shiny bright and both teeth will be little, if at all, chan......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, there's the surprisingly persistent myth that Anheuser Busch and Millers brew beer and the ass......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Nor do I. It tastes positively foul! Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: The world's funniest joke? (in Wordplay) by Richard English
You are correct. Real football can have any score from 0-0 upwards. Richard English...
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Discussion Topic  RE: The world's funniest joke? (in Wordplay) by Richard English
This joke was made famous by Wilfrid Hyde White (the patient) and Hattie Jaques (the matron) in one ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sounds (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
We had an English master who, when the bell for the end of class rang, would swirl his gown around h......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Words from Characters in Homer's Odyssey (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English
Which means that of my two examples, tutee and coachee, the latter could be considered valid, since ......
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