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Q9:Sharp-set tea lady loses her trolley and rejects love. Father or son? (Thanks to Mickwick for submitting this one) Jitze Couperus, Panel Member, 2004...
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The local news was talking about a local who is serving as a delegate at the Republican National Convention: "She's looking for a post-convention...
By Michael Hamm
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Both the prefixes un- and in- carry the sense of negation in English. Can anybody think of a word that came into our language with the in- prefix used...
By howard richler
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by Tom Breton
5 yr 86 days ago
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Is there any way that a "catastrophic success" is NOT an oxymoron? http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/217656p-187192c.html Christopher ('CJ'...
By Christopher Johnson
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by Maria Conlon
5 yr 86 days ago
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Question 4: Take a quotation from Shakespeare of at least 9 words and rewrite it in the style of an EFL student. To make it more difficult, no word can...
By Maria Conlon
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by Dylan Nicholson
5 yr 86 days ago
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Hereby beginning the 2004 Totally Official AUE Summer Doldrums Competition: Question 1: Discovered in 1931, this island is separated from the mainland...
By Maria Conlon
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by Maria Conlon
5 yr 86 days ago
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Press Release: Lose Your Accent in 28 Days New Accent Reduction Book and CD-ROM Set Is First to Help Workforce Foreign Nationals Achieve Accurate English...
By Jennifer Greeley
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by Rich Wales
5 yr 86 days ago
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South Shropshire District Council. Just thought I'd mention it. As you were. Mickwick
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Important: Post *and* CC your *competitive* responses to: (Email Removed) Watch the (=SDC=) thread(s) for possible further rules or guidelines or suggestions...
By Maria Conlon
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by Maria Conlon
5 yr 86 days ago
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ºRepublican leaders plan to repeatedly remind the nation of the Sept. 11 attacks as their convention opens in New York." http://www.nytimes.com/ ...
By Ross Howard
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by Martin Ambuhl
5 yr 86 days ago
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How would people punctuate the following? The video operator today is John Smith the court reporter is Jane Smith both contracted by Video Services of...
By Dena Jo
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by Christopher Johnson
5 yr 86 days ago
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The recent AUE discussions about the pronunciation of the consonants in a word like "ditty" have led me to the tentative conclusion that I have...
By Bob Cunningham
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by Matti Lamprhey
5 yr 86 days ago
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Here in Aus we were told (very strictly indeed) when Britain decimalised that the minimum unit of the new currency was not pence, but "p". Now...
By Bob Gowers
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by Mike Connally
5 yr 86 days ago
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Sweet angry moon, what color is your candy box? Thanks again to Jim Ward. Jerry Friedman, T. O. panelist If you'd like to Totally Avoid the competition...
By Jerry Friedman
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by DE781
5 yr 86 days ago
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Is it necessary for a loved one to be loved?
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by Raymond S. Wise
5 yr 86 days ago
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Who resolved the dispute between the two travellers? Jerry Friedman, T. O. panelist If you'd like to Totally Avoid the competition, see http://www...
By Jerry Friedman
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by Michael Hamm
5 yr 86 days ago
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From another newsgroup comes the Totally Unofficial answer, it seems (or appears): Thanks to all who responded. I feel better already. rzed
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On the BBC News website this morning they have a story with the headline "Muslim cleric Hamza de-arrested". The link I followed from the main...
By Andrew Gwilliam
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by Martin Ambuhl
5 yr 86 days ago
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Schick Ock Sulfuric Midol Glock What gives? (This question and the previous one are courtesy of Jim Ward. I would have had a chance at this one, maybe...
By Jerry Friedman
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If the genus and species of the plant Agapanthus campanulatus are italiicized, should the "-es" of the plural form "campanulatuses"...
By Jim Bidwell
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by Andrew Gwilliam
5 yr 86 days ago
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"On the front burner", "on the back burner", who started these? I meant to put this in the "First Cool Character on TV" thread...
By Richard Maurer
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by Evan Kirshenbaum
5 yr 86 days ago
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Saturday, 28 August, Angel & Greyhound, 1 pm. Accompanying spouses, babies and sheep welcome, also virtual participation by telephone link - email...
By Laura F Spira
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by Laura F Spira
5 yr 86 days ago
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This summer while making a brief stopover in Portugal, I ate at a restaurant where the English translation for an item on the menu read "jewfis.,"...
By howard richler
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by Areff
5 yr 86 days ago
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My copy of this otherwise excellent book is afflicted* with Americanized spelling. I do not, of course, mean that there's anything wrong with US spelling...
By Andrew Gwilliam
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by Areff
5 yr 86 days ago
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If anyone wants Gmail, please send me an e-mail. I have got six more invitations just this morning. Do not consider my posts as spam, because I am sure...
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