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RE: Slogans and battle cries
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Not only do I disagree with number four - I disagree with the list! This is a list of the top US sl......
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August 20, 2003 23:42
RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2
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I agree. I still use Roget's Thesaurus and find it better than the MS Word thesaurus. However, I do......
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August 19, 2003 11:42
RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2
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Maybe the answer is to find a selection of boards, covering various interests, and then get those in......
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August 16, 2003 04:58
RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2
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We use the verb "to network" very commonly in the UK these days. Richard English...
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August 15, 2003 12:09
RE: Endemic
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This has never been compulsory in the UK, but few parents (mainly those with religious convictions) ......
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August 14, 2003 01:27
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It is not always wrong to deliberately split an infinitive (providing, of course, that one knows wha......
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August 11, 2003 11:16
RE: Endemic
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Measles has not been endemic in England for many years because of almost universal vaccination. Howe......
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August 10, 2003 03:32
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Apologies. I knew it was Yiddish. I do know the difference between the languages - blame it on a tem......
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August 08, 2003 04:48
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We had assumed that they would be some sort of rissole made from minced chicken - maybe a bit like a......
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August 08, 2003 04:11
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On Monday we went out for a meal and Margeret ordered from the specials board: "Chicken fries and sa......
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August 06, 2003 11:21
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I would add to this only the rider that, because one form of expression is grammatically correct, th......
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August 06, 2003 11:16
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I always understood that this was Jewish and meant "cheek". Richard English...
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August 06, 2003 11:11
RE: What's it called ?
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A boardwalk is a walkway - made of boards! They tend to use them in the states to make it easy to wa......
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August 06, 2003 11:09
RE: Time Zones, help needed
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It would be interesting were it true! In fact, Portugal uses GMT/UTC. Spain, on the other had, whose......
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August 05, 2003 02:58
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I think that sentence is fine. The conjunction shows that the item under discussion is both dangerou......
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August 05, 2003 02:53
RE: Time Zones, help needed
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Although it is a guess, I suspect that there was presssure brought to bear by countries who thought ......
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August 04, 2003 06:44
RE: Pairing
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Omnibus, abbreviation 'bus; Telephone, abbreviation 'phone. Both abbreviations have now become word......
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August 04, 2003 06:27
RE: Iron Man
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Interestingly this misspelling was actually in the body of the email, not the subject line. I can'......
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August 03, 2003 02:05
RE: Pairing
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Either is used. Bra is an abbreviation but like so many other abbreviations (phone, fax, bus, plane)......
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August 03, 2003 01:57
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I assume I am not the only one who is targeted by the modern version of the snake oil salesmen, offe......
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