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The use and abuse of the English language, as used in the UK, including serious and humorous examples, likes and dislikes, and the evolution of English.
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I'd like to impress my english teacher at school by presenting my essay work with an astonishing array of vocabulary. Is there any one best way I should...
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What's the difference between the meaning of these two words?
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Hi again, sorry but you guys on this newsgroup have been so helpful so far to help me find my words that I thought I might as well keep asking lots more...
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Hi all, was wondering if anybody could come out with some terms as an alternative for 'in great number', for example if you wanted to say 'the...
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What does it mean when people say 'I'll give you the benefit of the doubt'? I've heard it so many times and have a slight hint or gist...
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by Molly Mockford
1 yr 200 days ago
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There's another word that means the similar thing as 'personification', i.e. giving a animal or thing human traits. I think it ends with 'morphosis'...
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by Tony Mountifield
1 yr 200 days ago
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Just come from another group where it was suggested that Microsoft invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or wordwheel' to describe...
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Hello, I'm looking for the meaning of Winterlude in general and in the Bob Dylan Song "Winterlude". All I found with Google was about the...
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by Klaus Gerhardt
1 yr 218 days ago
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I'm from Denmark and have heard the expression "mirror blue" in a song. I can't find it in any dictionary. Google gives 91.600 results...
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by Adrian Bailey
1 yr 219 days ago
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Does anyone know the origin of this expression? Is it biblical or classical? I have a notion that the Corinthian/Commoners dichotomy is analogous to Gentlemen...
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Hi, Any fiction rich in British college/university students' slang, esp Oxbridge (prefer 60s-70s)? Thanks.
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Paying "down" a loan - what happened to paying it off? Parking "up" at the airport - why can't you just park? The same with heading...
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by John Briggs
1 yr 229 days ago
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Hello, as part of the writing of a program that will check grammar, we have to use a set of correct and incorrect sentences: 1) Two first class honors...
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by Peter Duncanson
1 yr 241 days ago
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Hello, two days ago, I showed a few people (including you) ten sentences asking whether they were grammatically correct or not. Everybody agreed this one...
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Does Santa ride in a sleigh or on a sleigh?
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by Molly Mockford
1 yr 247 days ago
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Consider these two sentences: A group of men played with the dogs. They were energetic. The word "they" may possibly refer to "the group...
By Martin Sondergaard
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by Tony Mountifield
1 yr 247 days ago
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It's a while since I heard this metaphor cited, but it has had real currency in British English in the late 20th Century. Based, loosely, upon the...
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I've just been told off by my proof-reader for not correcting this sentence in an article about cricket teas: "Most memorable of all was probably...
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Embarking on a renavigation of Umberto Eco's "Serendipities - Language and Lunacy" (from Italian by William Weaver), the opening chapter...
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by Peter Duncanson
1 yr 271 days ago
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Since Vinci is a town near Florence its italian pronounce is VEEN-chee, although in Tuscany probably they say something closer to VEEN-shee. Anyway, Italians...
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Hi, my English teacher sometimes told us a Limerick which I only partly remember: There was a ?young? lady of ?? who wanted to catch the two-two. "Don't...
By Olaf Foellinger
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by Tony Mountifield
1 yr 277 days ago
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Hello, I am not an native speaker. Can someony please explain the difference between: Ghost Phantom Wraith Spectre Spirit My dictionary translates these...
By Ulrich Schwaderlap
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by Molly Mockford
1 yr 295 days ago
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I can't at the minute think of a more self-centred word than "supposed". G DAEB COPYRIGHT (C) 2008 SIPSTON
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The following is part of my master's thesis. Can you help me correct my language? The format needn't correcting. Thank you so much. 1.4 A Brief...
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I am a Chinese graduate student. The following is part of my master's thesis. Who can help me polish my language. Thank you very much.William Somerset...
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by John of Aix
1 yr 315 days ago
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