Calling Quiz Fans
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:15:42 +0000
There are several umrats who regularly participate in pub
quizzes and I draw their attention to the annual King William's
College quiz, the answers to this year's version being now available:
see www.kwc.im
This site has the questions, originally published (*) before
Christmas and also the answers. For th ...
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Good style?
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:54:25 +0700
What do you think about frequently occuring word combinations
like "to open an object"?
For me, it sounds rather stupid and funny.
In my language, such combinations are impossible.
Because there is no logic in those.
You can open a door as such,
but you cannot open an object AS SUCH.
I am not sure that ...
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WordPro 97 Help!!
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:00:38 +0000
Not the most used wp in the world I know but it is one I have
used almost exclusively for several years. Today it is playing silly
b*gg*rs.
I was in the process of drafting out a document on my laptop
and it ocurred to me to use the Outline features of WP97, which I had
never used before. As soon as I ent ...
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New word
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:02:47 +0000
New Scientist reports that The American Dialect Society has chosen
"plutoed" as its 2006 word of the year meaning to demote or devalue.
Pluto is no longer a Planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
IMO it should catch on in both the US and UK.
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Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Google Groups is I ...
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Whitworth
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:28:01 +0100
What, if there is one, is the meaning of that surname?
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Shakespearean curses
Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:36:04 +0100
Hello everyone,
I teach my students curses that appear in Sheakespearean English. As an
introduction to Macbeth this approach seems to me very promising to
raise the students`s interest.
I did not find the modern English meaning of
vended
fat-kidneyed
dizzy - eyed
doghearted
milk-livered
hell-hated ...
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Moliere v. Shakespeare
4 Jan 2007 16:17:32 -0800
Moli¨¨re v. Shakespeare
....teaching the French English (...& vice versa)
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Language exchange : English <> French
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OT: Men dancing badly
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:42:05 +0000
I discover. from The Observer yesterday, that I can blame my
inability to dance upon events in utero. It is claimed (by some dodgy
research) that men whose forefingers are markedly shorter than their
ring fingers have experienced more testosterone while in the womb and
will be "thus the better dancer". (The ...
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Golf courses
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:25:45 +0000
I am occasionally confronted by phrases such as 'there are three links courses
nearby'.
I am not a golfer - is there some other kind of golf course?
If so, what are they called?
If not, why mention that a course is a 'links course'?
Any help appreciated as my dictionaries seem to think as I do - no differe ...
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Ordering awkward sentences
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:33:24 +0000 (GMT)
HNY!
Just sent to another n/group:
"As do I. My wife, however (who uses PCs at school), uses a Mac and I
do believe that she is soon to pass her spare MacMini over to me. Don't
get me wrong; I love RISC OS; I hate MacOS; but I'm not immortal and I
really would like to see on a computer the digital photos I' ...
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