Is pastry those bread-like items that are often sweet? Is croissant a pastry? Wow - it's been years since I visited this NG and I'm astonished to see that rapid thread-drift continues unabated. Back to the original posters question. Pastry

Have you never used a rubbish socket wrench and yearned ... that sounded a lot ruder than I meant it to.) I'm wondering what "a nice snap on" is. Put together with "rubbish socket," it sounds well, "rude"

I limit the list to genuine line-ending mishy-phens that have been seen hyphenated this way in print. On March 21, Arthur J. O'Dwyer posted this one in rec.puzzles (saying that he had seen it in print) and I forwarded it to Donna: line- age

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You may be interested to see this section of my website, where I give some explanatory notes about some films which are related to Britain in some way: http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Britain/Films.htm Regards Congratulations! :-) Your site is really

After "not only" and a few other negatives such as ... the verb or the negative auxiliary "don't". Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Hallo Einde! Nice to read you :-) Thanks a lot for your explanation. Tomorrow morning I will

After "not only" and a few other negatives such as "never" the word order is similar to that in a ... with the "you" added for emphasis. Imperatives usually start with the verb or the negative auxiliary

Hi, I hope all of you had a nice weekend. I have a question, could you help me please? Here ... I have read it several times and I can't deduce whether you use it in a formal or informal way. After "not only" and a few other

Best countries for bread? India, Turkey, Germany, Ireland, France? Each ... the bread of San Diego is representative of the nation's. Nothing of San Diego is representative of the nation's. Good thing, too. As for bread, there's a

Thanks for all the replies. I am *so* sorry I made you all use such language. What a *** mess. That is what makes it so very nice to posting here. . .the opportunity to use obscenities without fear of reproach. A bit of experimenting to keep