> > OK, you know it is a swear word. Using it will invite other swear words. You may want this. It should be in your dictionary under "damn" or "damned". The meaning is approximately "cursed". This damned thing

> That's how I remember it. I can understand treating Eastern and Central as one market. I did wonder about why Mountain had a different local time than Pacific. The TV execs had their choice and must have known the best time to start their

on 10 Nov 2003: "Seed" is a somewhat old-fashioned synonym for descendants, particularly ... British English to treat collectives as if they were plurals. Macbeth : For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind... To make them kings,

> Does anyone remember what those people thought was gained by using "as"? Richard Maurer To reply, remove half Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.

> I think I just saw it in a bookstore. This isn't a sneaky way to advertise, is it? Anyway, as I remember it was called "Power Vocabulary", and physically small and light. Didn't read enough to see if it was any good. Richard

> > > For that word it was easy to tell in the negative. "Parent" was not used as a verb in real life 20 or 30 years ago and going backwards some number of decades. We (I, Andy Rooney, and a cast of thousands) would have

> > > Oh, now I see there were boxes to click, choices to make. The above was the simplest copy in the word and click search. When I went to the advanced search and clicked on languages to use (English), I got minuscule 139,000 miniscule

> > I just tried it and got minuscule 268,000 miniscule 157,000 Richard Maurer To reply, remove half Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.

> But not continuously, in these parts. Does the OED have a way of recording when a word has periods of use and un-use? Richard Maurer To reply, remove half Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.

> They do exist, but perhaps not in a physically small enough version. Some have more discussion for each word than is usually found in a dictionary. Not to recommend it, but Readers Digest may publish a compilation of their "It pays to