Recently, we've been revisiting some old disputes in alt.english.usage concerning...

Can you think of a really insulting term for a Brit? Something that elicits the emotions...

I'm missing a metaphor: the one where something initially co-exists well with other...

Over many years, Californian governments have assiduously built up a reputation for...

Hi I wonder what should I say if I go to a restaurant and order red wine?? should...

Is there some better way to punctuate the following sentence? He would sit in his...

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What is the stick called that a vagrant ties the red & white polka dot handkerchief...

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Hi all In the Danish newsgroup, about language one person claims that a brunette...

I've read in a few novels recently of British characters in Britain using a "yellow...

I think you can correctly refer to a dark brown beer in English as "dark." Is there...

I've long been familiar with the UK spellings 'centre' and 'theatre' as compared...

When you fall down and scrape your knee, would the scraped spot be called a scrape...

think of blues music. how did 'biue' first come to mean sad? isn't blue kind of...

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Yesterday I bought a plastic box of grapes labeled "Red Seeded Grapes," but when...

We've never really recovered from decimalisation of the currency, have we? But I...

I am reading a book "Being English in Scotland". The author claims about English...