BBC In Monochrome
From the BBC's web site today 'Liberal black Congressman Charles Rangel said of...
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Hilarious Student Quotes -- POMO Goes...
Hubby is currently tearing at his hair in another round of marking. I've disappeared...
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Butties Are Edible In England?
Among the seemingly excessive number of paragraph breaks, there's this sentence,...
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Bad Teaching
What does it mean to teach bad? It means, in particular, that you are unable to answer...
Euphemism Gone Mad
I read some of the paragraphs about the latest US military personnel killed in action...
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Another Letter To Sis
Dear Sis: For the first time, when reporting the doings in aue, I must report my...
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We Are All Bacon Here
Final paragraph of an article at [link] 2latesierra.html "Have you every heard...
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So Who Needs To Spell Crcreotly?
I saw this in a Eudora newsgroup today and thought some here might find it interesting...
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"Yet" As "However"
I work with some wonderful copy editors. Yet I want to encourage them to stop doing...
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Pathetic
Will you help me clarify my confusion about the following paragraph? (The narrator...
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My Favorite Person
please correct my mistakes in the paragraph below. thanks in advance. I will also...
A Word For A Person Always Playing Safe
Yo! Somebody please give me a word, and please make it as insulting as possible,...
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Whodunit
In a communications class I'm taking, there was an exercise to test quality of listening...
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The Importance Of Money?
My teacher made us write a little essay about 'The importance of ...." and I chose...
Does Sarcasm Work Both Ways?
Someone ends a paragraph with "You don't often associate California with good looking...
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"Aks" Or "Ax" -- Just How Widespread Is...
NY Times sent me this today: GUEST COLUMNIST Changing Places By HENRY LOUIS GATES...
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So That! Please, Help!!!?
Hi, dears. Here's an excerpt from a dictionary: "so that 1 with the purpose that;...
"Get Bent, You Freak."
The phrase in the subject line "get bent, you freak" has been used here of late....
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What Should A Reading Heritage Be For...
"The literary heritage Ideas about English change over time, but two themes endure...
Organizing Research
hello everyone: I have been a silent observer of this group for too long. Lots of...
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