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RE: Obamacons
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Well, since you are a Briton, you wouldn't have. Pom or Pommie was, when I lived there, the polite ......
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July 03, 2008 13:50
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I have submissions from jerry thomas, Kalleh, arnie and BobHale. Boy, you folks can't agree on anyth......
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July 02, 2008 23:07
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The first, and only, time I ran across limey in spoken English, was in Australia. I've never heard i......
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July 02, 2008 22:54
Bluffing Game - rickroll
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I'm new here, though I have read some of the past games. I believe that this word: ......
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July 01, 2008 07:49
RE: letterbook
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Not so old-fashioned at all. For years I kept a personal binder of every piece of correspondence I s......
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November 30, 2008 07:45
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One (or two) generations ago, the lady of the house had a cleaning woman. Now, the woman of the hous......
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November 02, 2008 12:29
RE: Who..?
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Tomb and memorial are exclusive?...
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October 28, 2008 20:01
RE: Who..?
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Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?...
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October 27, 2008 21:01
RE: Approximately/About
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Of course, there are many ways "about" can be used in which "approximately" wouldn't do at all. "I w......
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October 27, 2008 20:56
RE: "culminate"
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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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October 24, 2008 04:23
RE: Limerick on Transition
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Kalleh: I thought from the NCSBN page you linked that the term was well-entrenched, so I haven't giv......
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October 22, 2008 12:14
RE: Limerick on Transition
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Transition seems to me to be a very bad word for this new thing....
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October 21, 2008 18:13
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In the wilds of western Nebraska is ......
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October 19, 2008 11:23
RE: Taken for granite
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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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October 15, 2008 18:59
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October 15, 2008 09:16
RE: Bistronomic
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It seems to me that this is a pretty poor coinage. Yes, gastronomic ends with nomic, but so do lots ......
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October 13, 2008 18:45
RE: Anorak
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Don't these people know how to index? A ......
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October 12, 2008 08:00
RE: Anorak
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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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October 12, 2008 07:05
RE: Anorak
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Asa: did you mean anorek, or anorak? To me, an anorak (and the US equivalent - I think - parka) is ......
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October 11, 2008 07:39
RE: Anorak
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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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October 10, 2008 06:03
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