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- Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:08 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Please send me 200 words and there origin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5882
Please send me 200 words and there origin
Can you recommend any good pictures of the place?
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:12 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Keep/get/have/put one's ducks in a row
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11585
Keep/get/have/put one's ducks in a row
Well, Edwin, you may be thinking of everybody's fair-weather friend, Gerry Mandering.
But I may be meandering off the point -- failing to keep all my ducks in a row, in other words.
But I may be meandering off the point -- failing to keep all my ducks in a row, in other words.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:28 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Keep/get/have/put one's ducks in a row
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11585
Keep/get/have/put one's ducks in a row
Only in parts of northern England, as far as I know.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:58 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Not strictly on origins, but nevertheless...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8484
Not strictly on origins, but nevertheless...
Every time Bush speaks at one of his rarely-held accountability-evading press conferences, it's as though I'm hearing one of those jumbled texts. Maybe there is something to be said for the infrequency of those occasions after all.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:36 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Make Market
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5271
Make Market
Besides the circumflex, numerous other accents (a.k.a. diacritic marks) are used in other Roman-based alphabets. A brief inspection of the range of characters that Wikipedia allows for in its postings will demonstrate their extent, as will MS Windows' Character Map. Essentially, the purpose of these...
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:37 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: pasty vs pastie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10366
pasty vs pastie
The panties were probably too hard for people to get into.
Incidentally, Andrew, thanks for keeping an eye (or in your case, ear) out regarding this problem. It shows that there's at least one other person besides myself and the Quakers who is taking it seriously.
Incidentally, Andrew, thanks for keeping an eye (or in your case, ear) out regarding this problem. It shows that there's at least one other person besides myself and the Quakers who is taking it seriously.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:13 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Make Market
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5271
Make Market
The acute accent is in fact known in French as "l'accent aigu".
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:26 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: pasty vs pastie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10366
pasty vs pastie
Quite true, Edwin. The numerous Renaissance paintings that show St Michael slaying the dragon usually depict him sitting astride a rather handsome steed.
- Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:42 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Please send me 200 words and there origin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5882
Please send me 200 words and there origin
Spiritus,
You surely exaggerate the extent of my wit, which is no greater than the intersect of those two black lines -- period.
Please, in all your humble magnanimity, reconsider your verdict.
You surely exaggerate the extent of my wit, which is no greater than the intersect of those two black lines -- period.
Please, in all your humble magnanimity, reconsider your verdict.
- Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:24 am
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Please send me 200 words and there origin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5882
Please send me 200 words and there origin
Wordwizard, eh?
Now where have I heard that name before...?
Now where have I heard that name before...?
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:26 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Reapt or Reaped
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4989
Reapt or Reaped
Shelley, that's not what I think of as pop music.
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:19 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: cracker
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5543
cracker
The explanation for the name of the TV series that I found in an Amazon.com review is that "His character, Fitz, has a incredible way to crack people and get the information that he needs on the crimes that they committed." Either that, or he habitually wore his trousers rather loose around the hips...
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:33 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: red state, blue state
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10213
red state, blue state
Yes, or it could just mean he was getting hot under the collar.
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:17 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Please send me 200 words and there origin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5882
Please send me 200 words and there origin
I nominate Piet Mondrian's Lozenge Composition with Two Black Lines.
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:08 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: rampant use of the word "robust"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6287
rampant use of the word "robust"
Now you're just verbogerminating.