Thus spake Dr Robin Bignall: Sacrilegious! I've just come back from France with a dozen bottles of Beaujolais, Fleurie and the like (I actually paid as much as $3 a bottle for some of them which, in France, is good wine) only to read about

Skitt: To become fluent in a language the best way is to become totally immersed in it. Wouldn't an AU group be a good way to be totally immersed though? Short of a trip to Mexico, it's ... can think of. Unless I decide to spend my entire

Skitt: You've studied it for five years, and your Spanish is still God-awful, as you say? This was three years ago. I stopped studying it three years ago. I'm sure I was better then than I am now. I've probably lost a bit, since I

The latest piece of office technology has been developed in ... now I'm saving up for a shrinter. They're not cheap. For something as useful as that they're entitled to charge what the market will bear. When I think of all the weary

Somebody told me recently that there trip to Portugal was "hotter than the hobs of hell." Does anybody know what "hobs" refers to? From the Century Dictionary: hob 5.A structure inserted ill a fireplace to diminish its width,

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No. Yes. Don Aitken Tangentially, this reminds me of two odd nominalizations I've encountered in the last 24 hours: (1) The US Dept of Agriculture in sites such as http://plants.usda.gov/cgi bin/plant profile.cgi?symbol=DAHE2&mode=Print

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, in message (Email Removed), Jacqui (Email Removed) writes Autumn term: first week of Sept-third week of Dec. Half-term around the third or fourth week of October. Spring term: ... short Christmas break and exams in January,

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Certain colors have been utilized in English to symbolize particular emotions or reactions or flavors. I discovered in Finland that green food color indicates pear. In the USA that color indicates lime or mint or pistachio. The various colors