So you(Gerald Smyth) take it upon yourself to effectively reverse ... you really think you are qualified to reverse their recommendations? Hey, anybody at all is just as qualified to make recommendations on English style than a bunch of

On 22 Oct 2003 19:51:04 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum (snip) (snip) The two doubtful ones are 5 and 6. It is ... true cannot be libelous, comment on those facts can be. Pullum claims (but doesn't cite a reference) that certain things you can say

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(snip) 5. The utterance was issued in some nonconfidential form, published ... claim the uterance makes about the libeled person is false. (snip) The two doubtful ones are 5 and 6. It is a defence to libel that insofar as the item complained ...

I am developing some tasks for my TEFL students that include playing Bingo - also known as Tombola (Royal Navy), Housey-Housey (British Army), and Lotto (shop-bought version). To this end I have been developing a list of "number

Has anyone noticed that Bill Palmer's Google archives are disappearing at a rather rapid rate? By the way, there is no need to say "Google archives," since just about everyone in Usenet knows what the Google Nova is. Anyway, you

I didn't give the thorough definition of "orange" class, though: ... that may have merged with short-o in a particular dialect. Ah. Okay, by that definition I guess I don't have the class. It had sounded as though you were

Woody Wordpecker filted: The people who try to generate closed captions for TV in real time display many amusing albeit no doubt ... list of them. I could start with the "knee on beer signs" I saw on CNN a few hours ago. There's the

Ross Howard wrote, in part: Which reminds me have we done "conjoined" here yet? ... person responsible for "SARS". Why not call them "fused twins"? That makes me wonder what cruel *** fused them together. Are they

Once again I must apologise for double posting. This time it wasn't my daughter, it was one of my managers who changed settings and didn't change them back. I will have to start hiding my notebook, everyone in the office disappears with