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It's always seemed strange to me that ballet dancers are often seen to be effeminate. Ballet dancin......
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April 01, 2003 01:39
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Not so much of a threat as is MSN's attack on accepted standards of English. The construction is, of......
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March 30, 2003 01:44
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In the 1930s, when many homes still did not have electricity, there was a corporate advertisement th......
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March 28, 2003 10:27
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Of course, I would not want to mention the person who looks after the rooks in the rookery...! Rich......
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March 21, 2003 11:08
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Interestingly enough, Cheddar Cheese is probably the most maligned of all cheeses since it is a simp......
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March 20, 2003 03:20
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Of course not. And you wouldn't need to since the word does not exist. I suspect that the TES was p......
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March 20, 2003 02:52
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Slough (pronounced to rhyme with cow) is also the name of a town in West London, known for little ex......
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March 19, 2003 01:38
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I have long believed that this is nothing that anyone can say or do, anywhere that will not annoy so......
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March 19, 2003 01:25
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Of course, it would be uncharacteristicly non-chauvinistic of me were I not to point out that Stilto......
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March 19, 2003 01:21
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Seems fine to me. I never did get an answer from any one of those who prefer the construction "bos......
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March 19, 2003 01:08
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Not so much in England but there is still bitter Catholic/Protestant rivalry in Northern Ireland. R......
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March 18, 2003 01:48
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Of course, much modern poetry doesn't use rhyme at all. Indeed, I asked the tutor at a poetry evenin......
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March 18, 2003 01:31
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I like Oscar Wilde's quote in the Canterville Ghost in which he said of Mrs Otis, an American who wa......
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March 17, 2003 12:33
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I have a calender that shows an old English word or expression for every day and also, where possibl......
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March 16, 2003 07:01
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That link suggests that the word is Italian - a language I don't speak. Maybe that's what it means i......
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March 15, 2003 08:52
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In Spanish this is an adjective with meanings having the sense of "wild"; "courageous"; "rugged" etc......
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March 15, 2003 02:34
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And, if it's a man looking at the place, not even then! Richard English...
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March 15, 2003 02:24
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The fact that I spent much of my earlier working life as a travel agent does help when it comes to t......
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March 13, 2003 06:22
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There was, at one time, a company called Daedelus aviation (or, as we in the trade called it, "Dead ......
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March 13, 2003 02:04
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There are very many perfectly good words that have changed their meaning to the extent that some are......
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