Hi, why do you need a comma for these questions for riddles I found in a book titled "101 American English Riddles" by Harry Collis? I feel the comma usage for this type of thing is discretionary without any firm rules to guide the use.

Hi, why do you need a comma for these questions for riddles I found in a book titled "101 American English Riddles" by Harry Collis? I feel the comma usage for this type of thing is discretionary without any firm rules to guide the use.

Hi, why do you need a comma for these questions for riddles I found in a book titled "101 American English Riddles" by Harry Collis? I feel the comma usage for this type of thing is discretionary without any firm rules to guide the use.

From my cozy position in alt.english.usage: that should be "(the)(?) Queen". Yoo mean he's naw tawckin boud Noo Yawck? Ah ThahnFranthithco? But he has a point, loath as I am to proposition trolls (I find the methods Christ enacted

Merci, mon vieux. I got this witty riddle a few ... a variant of a WW II riddle (as per Google). Does Google confirm it? Delightful. I didn't find it there; still can't. I plead guilty to sloppy Googling and possibly misunderstanding the

That sounds interestingly like an adaptation of a US war joke. What do fighter pilots.. CDB Merci, mon vieux. I got this witty riddle a few years ago and had no idea that it's a variant of a WW II riddle (as per Google). Does Google confirm

The New SOED gives for ridden: Oppressed, harassed, troubled; infested, ... M17. It gives as an example "We're ridden with guilt". I'd reject that as bad style. 'X-ridden' is fine, but it must be 'riddled with X'.

Your joys seem suspiciously like the list of joys I gave you. But that joy of faith remaons, as Churchill said, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. And, as you have repeatedly said, is unspeakable. Of course it does, Jan. I've

Why is it that, in English, when we write a sentence of the form "My name is (name) ... of nine Roman letters that spell "Juuitchan". So why do we write as in A, and not as in B? B is logically correct. However, in ordinary English

There is a new-to-me usage of "chart" in musical contexts. Examples: "Riddle, who had helped launch Frank Sinatra's comeback with ... he had benefited from his respite." I translate this as simply "sheet music", but I wonder if that is right. A