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RE: Drink-related words
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Mind you, if it was a typical US bar serving typical US beer, I can understand their reluctance to w......
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January 30, 2003 13:48
RE: Drink-related words
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I hope you ordered a proper beer, like Goose Island... Richard English...
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January 30, 2003 12:12
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I have never heard of this word although there is an archaic word, "Gammer" which means "an old woma......
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January 29, 2003 23:07
RE: Drink-related words
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The last time I checked the per person consumption in the UK was lower than some other European coun......
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January 29, 2003 22:44
The verb "to suck"
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I am aware of the vulgar origins of this term when used in the sense "American beer sucks", and thus......
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January 29, 2003 10:07
RE: Am I a mutt?
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Hello again, Duncan. Nice to chat again - you will note that the beer thread is still alive and wel......
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January 29, 2003 02:05
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Since, at our present state of knowledge, the only way to re-hydrate anything is to add water to it,......
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January 28, 2003 11:19
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Just another reason for eschewing the ubiquituos beer-can in favour of the more ecologically sound, ......
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January 26, 2003 22:41
RE: Terms from US football
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"Moving the goal posts" is the only term I have yet understood. Incidentally, the expression "to pu......
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January 25, 2003 09:10
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I rest my case in my defence of Oxford! Richard English...
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January 23, 2003 23:02
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I have certainly never seen a source that suggests this! The difference between the "to draw a concl......
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January 23, 2003 11:54
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And I suspect that, in the decade since this research was undertaken, the word count has increased s......
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January 22, 2003 23:14
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I know very little about sport but was forced to play Rugby Football at school. Fumbling was a term ......
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January 22, 2003 01:56
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Of course, when one visits an area and begins to associate with the locals (one of the great virtues......
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January 22, 2003 01:50
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No. We play football - you call it soccer to distinguish from America Football (which is a bit like ......
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January 21, 2003 10:07
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In fact, this is only a shorter phrase than its English equivalent because of the German habit of co......
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January 21, 2003 02:18
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We have far more words in English than there are in German. The one, oft-quoted word, that they do h......
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January 20, 2003 13:14
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Archaic, maybe; picturesque, I think so. Why not use some attractive terms occasionally? Richard En......
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January 20, 2003 13:08
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Heaven forfend that this should ever happen. One of the great strengths of English is its lack of ge......
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January 20, 2003 07:17
RE: Terms from US football
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You might be interested to learn that the term is meaningless in the UK (as, I suspect, will be most......
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