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Discussion Topic  RE: Vive la difference! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I has been my own experience that men are far more likely to notice what women are not wearing than ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Sic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Check with an electrician!...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Wordnerd's Quiz #1 (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...corkage" was always the term we used to describe the "cork-ettes" that floated in your bot......
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Discussion Topic  Sic (in Potpourri) by Richard English
World Wide Words has a feature in which it quotes passages which are amusing because of unintended d......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Brilliant, or its abbreviation, "brill" was very common when I was a lad. Like most youth slang it s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have to say that, on the beer board, the possessive form of it is spelt with an apostrophe more of......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...Thus do I aver that not all products of the USA are akiin to fermented horse piss...." An......
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Discussion Topic  Highly appropriate sayings (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I have just seen a saying by Thomas Carlyle that was new to me but which I felt is just so, so true.......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In the UK a Stein is a different thing. That's a German drinking vessel, typically made from earthen......
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Discussion Topic  RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Quote "...I remember Richard once telling me that he would have to live where there was good beer. W......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Baseball words in England (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Never heard of any one of them! Seems like you've bowled us a googly there, Wordnerd....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Scandinavian language(s) (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It is, indeed. From the Latin "cemeterium"....
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Discussion Topic  RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
In fact, the situation is even worse as you can see here: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: A non-word-related (sorry) OUTRAGE! (in Potpourri) by Richard English
(Yawn). Sleeping pills? Earplugs? Blindfolds?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Two questions (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Welcome, anycon. I wish I could answer your questions but will need to research a bit first....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Camp (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Well, Susan Sontag certainly makes a meal of that! I had always understood Camp to be the slightly ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Sweet San Fairy Ann" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
The problem here is that two phrases have been combined. As Bob says, the less polite one is "Sweet ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by Richard English
Th Scottish abbreviation I have heard for "He isn't coming" is "He isna' (or isni') coming"...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by Richard English
I think it fair to say that "ain't", even in spoken English, is not considered correct. The correct ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: (Condolence) Letter from America (in The Written Word) by Richard English
At one time I believed that the British Library had a copy of every book ever printed in the UK. How......
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