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Discussion Topic  RE: Obamacons (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Well, since you are a Briton, you wouldn't have. Pom or Pommie was, when I lived there, the polite ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bluffing Game - rickroll (in Wordplay) by Valentine
I have submissions from jerry thomas, Kalleh, arnie and BobHale. Boy, you folks can't agree on anyth......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Obamacons (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
The first, and only, time I ran across limey in spoken English, was in Australia. I've never heard i......
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Discussion Topic  Bluffing Game - rickroll (in Wordplay) by Valentine
I'm new here, though I have read some of the past games. I believe that this word: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: letterbook (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Not so old-fashioned at all. For years I kept a personal binder of every piece of correspondence I s......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "Can you point to..." (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
One (or two) generations ago, the lady of the house had a cleaning woman. Now, the woman of the hous......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Who..? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Tomb and memorial are exclusive?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Who..? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?...
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Discussion Topic  RE: Approximately/About (in The Written Word) by Valentine
Of course, there are many ways "about" can be used in which "approximately" wouldn't do at all. "I w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: "culminate" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
I've never seen it, nor would I so use it. But the use of intransitive verbs as transitive is, I th......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limerick on Transition (in The Written Word) by Valentine
Kalleh: I thought from the NCSBN page you linked that the term was well-entrenched, so I haven't giv......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Limerick on Transition (in The Written Word) by Valentine
Transition seems to me to be a very bad word for this new thing....
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Discussion Topic  RE: Stonehenge (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Valentine
In the wilds of western Nebraska is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Taken for granite (in Potpourri) by Valentine
The first, and only, way I've heard the phrase "taken for granite" is in the joke about the fellow w......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bistronomic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
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Discussion Topic  RE: Bistronomic (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
It seems to me that this is a pretty poor coinage. Yes, gastronomic ends with nomic, but so do lots ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Don't these people know how to index? A ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
You've described what used to be universally called, here in the US, a parka. In my youth, it was a ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
Asa: did you mean anorek, or anorak? To me, an anorak (and the US equivalent - I think - parka) is ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Anorak (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Valentine
I don't know if my experience is typical, but the only times I've read or heard the word "anorak" to......
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