• Re: How to address people in emails/letters

  colloquialisms in what is meant to be formal written English. The reason is they haven't had enough
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• Re: OED has another thing coming

  for colloquialisms than the Web) under "I could give a damn whether":(snip Googlehits) And see
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• Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

  . My knowledge of idioms and colloquialisms could also be much better. Consider the following
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• Canadianisms. Eh?!

  colloquialisms but this one, I'm told, is their version of "eh". Actually a contraction of "boy", it appears
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• Re: I changed my phone number.

  British contemporaries, and colloquialisms of all kinds are notoriously used in higher-register
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• Re: go through line

  . In Britain a whole range of currency-colloquialisms died out practically overnight when the pee
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• Re: shorted words

  edition D. of Australian Colloquialisms (now taken over by OUP, I think) doesn't give the word at all
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• Re: I changed my phone number.

  did use rather more Americanisms than our British contemporaries, and colloquialisms of all kinds
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