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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Is that really true? I had heard it, certainly, but have always assumed it was an urban myth. Richa......
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
It's not that recent but it is within my own lifetime. Nigger brown was a perfectly acceptable term ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I agree that there might be times when a simile is better than the word of first choice since it may......
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Discussion Topic  RE: use of the word "niggly" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quite so. Where will it end otherwise with our being unable to talk about "rugger"; "duck"; "God" o......
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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: The World's Easiest Quiz (in Wordplay) by Richard English
Indeed there was; and it was around 25 years ago too; and a year ago; and 25 minutes ago. The bran......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What's it called ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
I used the expression to mean the language "learnt at a mother's knee" and English is that for most ......
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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: What's it called ? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English
Quote "...Britain is an island, on which there are (or were) three countries, England, Scotland and ......
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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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