The English are very civilized in this respect. Rather than ... Africa or India or Alaska in search of bigger game. "they?" I would hazard a guess that it's a vanishingly small percentage of my compatriots. "They" is all

How significant do you think those (or any) movies are ... must surely be a couple of orders of magnitude difference. You are correct, sir. For example, Happy Days reintroduced (AIW) "cool" and "nerd" into the speech of young

- The 'a boost' is the money you give the bridge and groom instead of a wedding gift. You also give a smaller one to the widow at a funeral. I don't think I need a word for this latter action, as I've never heard of it. Do people

In case you mooks are interested, 'A Goomba's Guide To Life' by Steven Schirripa (Bobby Bacala on the Sopranos) offers these tidbits: - 'to duke' is to tip "He's gonna tip the maitre'd to get a good table, but

Two old folks got married. As they were laying in their wedding Oy! suite, staring at the ceiling, the old man says, "I haven't been completely honest with you. ". If you use your imagination, no "Oy!" is needed. Lemme

Thus spake Skitt: Two old folks got married. As they were laying in their wedding Oy! suite, staring at the ceiling, the old man says, "I haven't been completely honest with you. ". Don't shoot the messenger; I copied and pasted

Two old folks got married. As they were laying in their wedding Oy! suite, staring at the ceiling, the old man says, "I haven't been completely honest with you. ". Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/

Two old folks got married. As they were laying in their wedding suite, staring at the ceiling, the old man says, "I haven't been completely honest with you. I think the world of you, but you are only number two to me. Golf is my first

... } Numbers are quantifiers. } In fact, the prototype of quantifiers. } They can combine with other determiners, as you noted, } but not with adjectives: } } *the brick ten houses } *long white seventeen dresses } (note 'seventeen' is

(I'd also agree with Sebastian that names of phobias are similar, and add that the specialist names for "collectors of obscure things" constitutes another set of such words.) As does the list of wedding anniversaries - wooden, paper,