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RE: A right to something "compulsory"?
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These are just one of the devices that we, in the UK, use to increase the subtelty of our communicat......
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July 24, 2003 01:57
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You must understand that we, in England, are very tolerant people. We do not blame the Europeans for......
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July 23, 2003 06:23
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I assumed that a "decapitated head" was a "headless head" - and that's an oxymoron. Richard English...
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July 23, 2003 06:18
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Yes, but they do all sorts of strange things in Europe. We British try to ignore them. Richard Engl......
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July 22, 2003 10:21
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Mortar can indeed contain cement. It just doesn't have to, that's all. Incidentally, cement can be......
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July 22, 2003 10:18
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Not necessarily. Traditional lime mortar is not cement, nor need it contain it. The reason why mort......
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July 22, 2003 01:49
RE: Is there a word for it?
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I suggest that "decapitated head" is oxymoronic. You can only decapitate a body, surely. Richard En......
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July 22, 2003 01:40
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At the Amberly Chalk Pits Museum there is an exhibition of concrete artifacts (the chalkpit used to ......
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July 20, 2003 04:13
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I did check to see that this story was not printed on April 1st...! Hedgeline? Well, maybe. 4000 pa......
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July 19, 2003 02:38
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I have a contact in Denmark who collects corporate ballpoint pens (he now has many thousand). I won......
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July 18, 2003 13:19
RE: bar? tavern? pub? whatever!
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In England, where we take these matters very seriously, each of the terms suggested has a different ......
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July 16, 2003 10:20
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So as not to cause it a paroxysm, I will modify any dubious words myself. However, my point is tha......
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July 16, 2003 09:57
RE: Verbifying Revisited, Part 2
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Most the world's best known brands are American and worth millions to their owners. I have not been......
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July 16, 2003 09:40
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And what, pray, is wrong with using a conjunction at the beginning of a sentence? Also, why should c......
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July 16, 2003 09:28
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Indeed it is - but it is supposedly for the speaker's ears only. Hamlet's most famous soliloquy is a......
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July 11, 2003 02:42
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The sadness of it is that the word "gay" is not a simile for "happy". The concept conveyed by the wo......
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July 11, 2003 02:30
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I have always assumed that a soliloquy could be private whereas a monologue anticipated an audience.......
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July 10, 2003 01:12
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That's exactly what I meant. You didn't imagine for a moment that I was advocating the use of a plur......
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July 09, 2003 05:41
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That's far better than a boss I once had who only wanted to monologue! Richard English...
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July 09, 2003 01:20
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Don't confuse accuracy with style. It's quite possible for a construction to be accurate, but offens......
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