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RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...However, I heard a number of people pronounce 'schadenfreude' with a long "a." In fact, un...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Punctuation (in Potpourri) by Richard English Write back and say, "...I sorry, who is this employee and what's his or her coffee supposed to have ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: epicaricacy reredux (in Potpourri) by Richard English In spite of the many pages of learned discussion devotes to this topic and the very good claims that...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Great e-mails (in Potpourri) by Richard English Look on the bright side. In 1974 everybody in the USA thought that Millers, Coors, Schlitz and Anheu...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by Richard English And welcome from me, too. It's good to see that the Midland Mensans, like the southern Mensans, are...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word RE: Entymology (not 'etymology') (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Richard English Our climate doesn't lend itself to poisonous creepy crawlies, it seems. We have only one highly po...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Varieties of Written Works (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English Quote "It is a revelation to learn of Ms. Anderson's literary talent" I read recently that Elvis Pr...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum RE: Leadership vs. Jazz (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...Armstrong always travelled with a reel-to-reel tape recorder and dictated thousands of tap...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: British vs. American English (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...So, is the word "movie" never used in England? For example, do you have "home movies?..." ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Unambiguous Ambiguities (in The Vocabulary Forum) by Richard English But they're not pronounced the same nor do they have the same etymology. And of course, there are m...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Vocabulary Forum RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English Last Tuesday I was in London, standing at the bottom of Shaftesbury avenue waiting for a bus, and sa...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Is this an oxymoron? (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...BTW, I was intrigued by the chiefly British definition of "Loud, arrogant speech; bluster....... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...Modern breakfast cereals originate in the USA, at least, according to this site. Of course...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by Richard English Well, they certainly say so but I would like to see some dates and other evidence before accepting t...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by Richard English Hash browns are now a standard item on most hotels' breakfast menus. Is this the first time a foodst...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Hashing (in Potpourri) by Richard English We used to do it in the Boy Scouts but we called it "tracking". There were several signs used along ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...but "quad" has already been pre-empted for one of four children born at once. ..." But wh...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Senior Moment (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...A light year is a unit of time..." I always understood it to be a unit of distance - the ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Pedicab (in Potpourri) by Richard English There have been a few in London - though I haven't seen any recently so I don't know whether the ven...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: British regional accents (in Potpourri) by Richard English Quote "...More broadly, what characters from film and TV exemplify various regional accents?..." I'...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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