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o Book indexing - and the order of punctuation characters

By: James Harris on Wed, 17 Apr 2024

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By: Ruud Harmsen

o AI at the low end

By: Rich Ulrich on Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o Spreading

By: Athel Cornish-Bowden on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: Phil Carmody

o Arindam = bertietaylor?

By: Athel Cornish-Bowden on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

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By: occam

o [bollard] What Bollard Man used in Sydney (assumed etymology from bole)

By: Ken Blake on Fri, 19 Apr 2024

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o Running up that Hill

By: Sam Plusnet on Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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By: Sn!pe

o Compendium: "It's Greek to me"

By: occam on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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o a song in Russian, Czech, Polish, Ukrainian

By: HenHanna on Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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o C. S. Lewis recommends (defends) [chastity]

By: HenHanna on Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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o Kate Bush song with a connection to James Joyce is "The Sensual World."

By: HenHanna on Thu, 18 Apr 2024

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o been went / did you went

By: LionelEdwards on Wed, 17 Apr 2024

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By: Ross Clark

o "per metre super"

By: Adam Funk on Tue, 16 Apr 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o Kanye West : “I did done call Kim, texted nannies. I got on the phone with ...

By: HenHanna on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o Obsessed with the past

By: Stefan Ram on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o Black Swan

By: Tony Cooper on Sun, 31 Mar 2024

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o Charley don't surf

By: LionelEdwards on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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o a wary buyer

By: navi on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o Sultan Bey

By: Rich Ulrich on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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By: Mark Brader

o White Holes

By: Peter Moylan on Thu, 4 Apr 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o for you to wear

By: navi on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Initialisms or acronyms

By: Steve Hayes on Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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By: Snidely

o well/good

By: navi on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

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By: LionelEdwards

o PTD on Baring-Gould's Annotated Sherlock Holmes

By: HenHanna on Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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By: Madhu

o (Tiger Tiger by Wm.Blake) -- [Authentic] pronunciation (recording) -- EYE-Symmet

By: HenHanna on Sun, 18 Feb 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o if any one of them is good enough

By: navi on Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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By: Paul Carmichael

o Scrabble

By: Tony Cooper on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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5 Days 23 Hours ago

By: Tony Cooper

o anywhere/wherever

By: navi on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

By: HenHanna on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars

By: HenHanna on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars

By: HenHanna on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o Looking For A Word :-)

By: Physfitfreak on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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By: Bertel Lund Hansen

o (real-Life Puzzle) -- in a movie, a guy is on the phone,

By: HenHanna on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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By: charles

o First performance of Shaw's "Pygmalion" (1914) -- "Not bloody likely!"

By: HenHanna on Sat, 13 Apr 2024

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o To egg a chicken

By: occam on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: lar3ryca

o Sentence-ending particles in English

By: Stefan Ram on Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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By: Rich Ulrich

o English language is badly pronounced French

By: bertietaylor on Wed, 10 Apr 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o modals

By: navi on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o the question whether

By: navi on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: Bertel Lund Hansen

o Re: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson --- born in 1854 and 1852 ?

By: HenHanna on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Re: PTD on baseball

By: HenHanna on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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o (real-life Puzzle) a single man eats dinner alone in a diner or bistro

By: HenHanna on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

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o dentist office problem

By: Marco Moock on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: charles

o C’est comme si je faisais pipi dans un chapeau de paille troué!

By: HenHanna on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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o modals -- (I threatened to sue him to make him quieter at night.)

By: HenHanna on Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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o Nabokov (VN) and [Laughter in the Dark]

By: HenHanna on Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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o are [albeit] and [sobeit] related?

By: HenHanna on Thu, 11 Apr 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Laughter in the Dark

By: Athel Cornish-Bowden on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Grammatically Correct: "Demain, il fera [le] jour"

By: HenHanna on Thu, 4 Apr 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o English language is badly pronounced French

By: HenHanna on Wed, 10 Apr 2024

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By: HenHanna

o (Left, Right) --- "robbing Peter to pay Paul"

By: HenHanna on Wed, 10 Apr 2024

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o ( Antimetabole, Chiasmus ) ---- Correctly Grouped?

By: HenHanna on Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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By: candycanearter07

o that I would fall/modals 2

By: navi on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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By: Snidely

o I've plucked more than nature allows, ,but the Groucho looks scary somehow. ...

By: HenHanna on Tue, 9 Apr 2024

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o Merde alors! Wordle

By: occam on Sun, 7 Apr 2024

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By: Adam Funk

o ( German Riddle ) -- bald höckerig, bald schlicht.

By: HenHanna on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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o [lede] Always heard it but never saw it spelled until now

By: Ken Blake on Sun, 31 Mar 2024

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By: occam

o 'mag...leiden' --- (I don't suffer fools gladly)

By: HenHanna on Sun, 7 Apr 2024

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o Re: Isaac Asimov died (6-4-1992)

By: HenHanna on Sun, 7 Apr 2024

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o Re: HenHanna

By: Ruud Harmsen on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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o Doch wenn man was bestimmtes isst, mag man's daran nicht leiden.

By: HenHanna on Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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o music videos

By: Rich Ulrich on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

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By: Phil Carmody

o Proof, pudding

By: Phil on Sun, 7 Apr 2024

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o (ACB on) -- Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)

By: HenHanna on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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o 3 body problem

By: bertitaylor on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

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o Science fiction and Science Fantasy

By: bertietaylor on Sat, 6 Apr 2024

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By: occam

o Scanning, Interpreting, & Parsing Charles Kingsley's "Easter Week"

By: Metrist2021 on Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o river/the river

By: navi on Fri, 5 Apr 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o French [surname CAPITALIZATION] -- in the French version of Wikipedia?

By: HenHanna on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o French uses "ne" in contexts where English wouldn't use "not". --- (The pleonast

By: HenHanna on Tue, 12 Mar 2024

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By: wugi

o Re: What's the origin of the word flake, meaning crackpot?

By: HenHanna on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

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o better than good

By: navi on Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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By: Paul Carmichael

o a (milk-producing) Cow the size of a Dog -- (13-year experiment)

By: HenHanna on Tue, 2 Apr 2024

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By: J. J. Lodder

o tell instead of know

By: navi on Sun, 31 Mar 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o going public with Trump Social. FYI.

By: Rich Ulrich on Thu, 4 Apr 2024

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o (flake, flaky) -- Which came first, Fluff or Fluffy?

By: HenHanna on Thu, 4 Apr 2024

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o Use of them instead of his/her

By: bertietaylor on Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o OED's earliest evidence for [comic relief] is from 1783, in the writing of Thoma

By: HenHanna on Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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o Flesh and blood

By: LionelEdwards on Wed, 3 Apr 2024

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o Punctuation of "more readable"

By: Pamela on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o Full of reflects

By: LionelEdwards on Mon, 1 Apr 2024

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By: lar3ryca

o Anagrams with the first and last letters correct

By: Vladimir Putin on Sat, 27 Jan 2024

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By: Paul Wolff

o ACB ... if you see someone in London wearing a kilt you,think he's Scottish...

By: HenHanna on Mon, 1 Apr 2024

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By: SugarBug

o [consulate] Israel bombed the Syrian consolate - but is that an embassy with dip

By: Ken Blake on Mon, 1 Apr 2024

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o Guardian error

By: Vladimir Putin on Mon, 13 Nov 2023

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By: Vladimir Putin

o Re: Special delivery (signed for post) is pointless

By: Vladimir Putin on Sun, 31 Mar 2024

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By: Vladimir Putin

o Term between friend and acquaintance

By: Kyonshi on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: Bertel Lund Hansen

o Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)

By: Ross Clark on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o Duero or Doruo?

By: jerryfriedman on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

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o New take on the Periodic table (courtesy of xkcd)

By: occam on Mon, 22 Jan 2024

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o may have been years since ----

By: tonbei on Tue, 26 Mar 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Re: WV Quine and English Usage

By: HenHanna on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

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o Term between friend and acquaintance (a casual friend) (Bekannte)

By: HenHanna on Sat, 30 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o I found myself singing "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf".

By: HenHanna on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o "a sight for sore eyes" -- [lion's share]

By: HenHanna on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o ACB on Virginia Woolf died (28-3-1941)

By: HenHanna on Fri, 29 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Ordene skal pusles på plads i opgaven.

By: HenHanna on Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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By: db

o Wrapped up like a douche

By: LionelEdwards on Wed, 27 Mar 2024

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By: Bertel Lund Hansen

o Kyonshi is the Japanese term for a reanimated corpse, very similar to the Chines

By: HenHanna on Tue, 26 Mar 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o Benjamin Franklin was a rockstar in France during his time there!

By: HenHanna on Thu, 28 Mar 2024

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o Short (adverb) meaning --- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.

By: HenHanna on Thu, 28 Mar 2024

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By: Anton Shepelev

o as in yours

By: navi on Wed, 27 Mar 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o ceneme (n.) -- plereme (n.)

By: HenHanna on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o 'Forums' vs. 'Fora'

By: Sn!pe on Fri, 22 Mar 2024

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By: Bertel Lund Hansen

o (IIII vs. IV) -- (the clock-face choice) -- (It is called by name, not by value)

By: HenHanna on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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By: Lawrence D'Oliv

o what women have

By: navi on Tue, 26 Mar 2024

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By: Hibou

o Jack London's popularity in Russia stemmed from a confluence of factors

By: HenHanna on Wed, 27 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Election

By: Bertel Lund Hansen on Sun, 17 Mar 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o Teach Yourself Ventriloquism

By: LionelEdwards on Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o Site

By: kyonshi on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

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By: Mark Brader

o Re: dominoes?

By: Sn!pe on Sat, 23 Mar 2024

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By: Phil Carmody

o Rebuffs of computer scientists

By: Stefan Ram on Sat, 23 Mar 2024

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By: Phil Carmody

o Re: Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries"

By: HenHanna on Tue, 26 Mar 2024

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o Swallowing a teaspoon won't paralyse you even if you can't do so (4)

By: HenHanna on Tue, 26 Mar 2024

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o Emordnilaps, Semordnilap(s), Anadrome

By: HenHanna on Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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o Provenance

By: Snidely on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o French Book entitled "How to succeed in love" was published in 1830

By: HenHanna on Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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o grammaticalized (or grammaticized), a process often seen in historical linguisti

By: HenHanna on Mon, 25 Mar 2024

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o Is there a famous real case of a wedding ceremony interrupted by an objection?

By: HenHanna on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

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o to include

By: navi on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o The Expert Language Fallacy

By: Stefan Ram on Sun, 24 Mar 2024

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By: Stefan Ram

o "doggy bag"

By: Stefan Ram on Sat, 23 Mar 2024

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By: Peter Moylan

o Spoken English, An Example

By: Stefan Ram on Thu, 21 Mar 2024

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By: Paul Carmichael

o "poster child"

By: Stefan Ram on Sat, 23 Mar 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o Sound the trumpet

By: LionelEdwards on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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By: Athel Cornish-Bowden

o our feeling

By: navi on Sat, 16 Mar 2024

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By: Stefan Ram

o A song sung in three different languages

By: LionelEdwards on Fri, 22 Mar 2024

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o Re: The fifth amendment does not apply to 14.3

By: Just Wondering on Mon, 18 Mar 2024

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By: bertitaylor

o Kanbun -- ( and Roman adoption of Greek gods and epics )

By: HenHanna on Fri, 22 Mar 2024

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o Re: The fifth amendment does not apply to 14.3

By: Just Wondering on Mon, 18 Mar 2024

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By: Just Wondering

o Re: When should I use first name terms?

By: HenHanna on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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o Sea shanty -- ( Ship stuck diagonally in Suez Canal )

By: HenHanna on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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o (ABC riddles) -- Why is K like a sunrise?

By: HenHanna on Wed, 20 Mar 2024

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o I have never heard anyone use the phrase 'lean on the wall'.

By: HenHanna on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o IIII v IV - the clock face choice

By: occam on Sat, 16 Mar 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o HELP! -- Swallowing a teaspoon won't paralyse you even if you can't do so (4)

By: HenHanna on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o a freshness, an aplomb

By: navi on Sat, 2 Mar 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Re: The fifth amendment does not apply to 14.3

By: Just Wondering on Mon, 18 Mar 2024

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By: Just Wondering

o old co-workers

By: navi on Sun, 17 Mar 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o SPAM squeeze until it pops

By: Marco Moock on Sat, 16 Mar 2024

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1 Month 2 Days ago

By: Sam Plusnet

o Word order matters

By: Peter Moylan on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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1 Month 2 Days ago

By: Peter Moylan

o on many a weekend

By: navi on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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1 Month 2 Days ago

By: Ian Jackson

o Bicycle monarchy

By: occam on Wed, 13 Mar 2024

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By: J. J. Lodder

o Different question

By: Sn!pe on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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By: Paul Wolff

o Cuckooing - new UK legislation

By: occam on Sat, 2 Mar 2024

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1 Month 3 Days ago

By: Marius_Hancu

o A question about French

By: Bertel Lund Hansen on Tue, 12 Mar 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Where have all the messages gone?

By: Peter Moylan on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

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By: Sn!pe

o Re: Comma after "however" or later in the sentence?

By: HenHanna on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o a name for the google groups exit -- GGexit?

By: HenHanna on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o for being loud

By: arthurvv vart on Mon, 29 Jan 2024

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By: Marius_Hancu

o Oscar Notes ... the scoring summary

By: Snidely on Tue, 12 Mar 2024

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By: Snidely

o That's what she said

By: Stefan Ram on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

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1 Month 4 Days ago

By: Madhu

o Re: The fifth amendment does not apply to 14.3

By: % on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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By: %

o  lean against the wall

By: tonbei on Wed, 13 Mar 2024

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1 Month 5 Days ago

By: Hibou

o [natter] The first known use of natter was in 1942

By: Ken Blake on Thu, 14 Mar 2024

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1 Month 5 Days ago

By: Ken Blake

o Re: that door of the building

By: HenHanna on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Harry's brother

By: navi on Wed, 13 Mar 2024

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By: navi

o Surname is shorter and seems more precise. -- than [Last name] [Family name]

By: HenHanna on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o Re: they should have been/tense question

By: HenHanna on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Re: Suffixes -oid, -oidal, -oidism, -odic

By: HenHanna on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o within two to three years

By: navi on Mon, 4 Mar 2024

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By: Sam Plusnet

o Re: [OT-ish] Does anyone remember the Atkinson affair of about 1970-1971?

By: HenHanna on Mon, 11 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Salinger: amalgam of prizefighter and mystic

By: navi on Thu, 7 Mar 2024

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By: Silvano

o Re: voluble

By: HenHanna on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Salinger: amalgam of prizefighter and mystic...

By: HenHanna on Fri, 8 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Re: The origin of 'gumshoe'

By: HenHanna on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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By: HenHanna

o Re: The origin of 'gumshoe'

By: HenHanna on Sun, 10 Mar 2024

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1 Month 8 Days ago

By: HenHanna

o good memories

By: navi on Sat, 9 Mar 2024

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1 Month 9 Days ago

By: HenHanna

o Scanning Longfellow's "Evangeline": Substitution + Anacrusis?

By: Metrist2021 on Sat, 9 Mar 2024

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1 Month 9 Days ago

By: jerryfriedman

o Dingbats (rebus) difficulty="Medium" (harder for non-Brits) -- (the last one is

By: HenHanna on Tue, 5 Mar 2024

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1 Month 9 Days ago

By: HenHanna

o IWD

By: Anton Shepelev on Thu, 7 Mar 2024

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1 Month 10 Days ago

By: Sam Plusnet

o feliz cumpleaños, Pepe

By: Snidely on Sat, 9 Mar 2024

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By: Snidely

o comparative/younger

By: navi on Mon, 26 Feb 2024

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By: jerryfriedman

o Re: World Scouse Day (28 February)

By: HenHanna on Fri, 1 Mar 2024

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1 Month 11 Days ago

By: Ross Clark

o [the few] is more likely to mean [a few] or [few] ?

By: HenHanna on Tue, 5 Mar 2024

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1 Month 11 Days ago

By: jerryfriedman

o Wordled

By: Snidely on Tue, 5 Mar 2024

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1 Month 12 Days ago

By: lar3ryca

o rhe few (again)

By: navi on Tue, 5 Mar 2024

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1 Month 12 Days ago

By: jerryfriedman

o Unknown Languages

By: Tony Cooper on Mon, 4 Mar 2024

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1 Month 12 Days ago

By: Snidely

o Bad actor

By: Ross Clark on Fri, 16 Feb 2024

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By: Phil Carmody

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o Re: as bad as

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o favorite [...Effect] or [...Bias] in Social or Cognitive Psychology?

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o when was the last time PTD was seen here?

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