Wordwizard

One of the most remarkable civil engineering feats within living memory whose achievement depended considerably on corduroy/log roads to cope with waterlogged terrain was the construction of the Alaska Highway following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Just slightly before your time, Ken!

This is rather curious -- Russ Cable and Dale Hileman are the two people who most recently contributed postings to this thread according to 'Active Topics', but nothing recent from either of them shows up when you click on the thread. I wonder how this posting will fare?

William, which do you like the sound of more? 'Benevolent', or 'despot'?

PS -- Do give our regards to John Bolton!

Actually, this word is normally spelt 'parliamentarian'.

You are quite right, it sounds extremely weird.

Not only that, but I don't see the relevance of your question to a forum that is primarily devoted to the meaning and etymology of English words and expressions.

While 'bum' is also passively understood in the US as referring to the buttocks, its primary connotation there is 'tramp, hobo'. 'Fanny', on the other hand, is generally regarded as a rather quaint or genteel word for the arse, so in my view its acceptance in the term 'fanny pack' (aided by its asso...

Yes, Dale, as your AP text demonstrates, the context is often decisive for how we must interpret a statement; but it is precisely because this is so that I disagree with your hypothesis about Chiara's wishes. Anny's original question includes the statement that: "Having grown up reading about her mo...

How about policymaker, policy unit, policy director?

Perhaps we atheists should unite under the standard of 'Bantheism'... No, just kidding! Although, despite the impression I must have created with my reference to the annoyingly ubiquitous SS Peter -- regarding whom the task you have implicitly set of determining the precise total is at least as prod...

In this general area you may want to consider: self-deceiving, self-deluding, letting oneself down, letting something/somebody get the better of one, not following one's destiny/dreams/stars, aiming low, not living up to one's potential, living in a fool's paradise, living in cloud-cuckoo-land, bein...

Ken, I like the sound of the competition, but following the link only took me to a generic submissions page which gave no details of the May challenge you mentioned. I have a feeling you can only view that page if you are a subscriber -- am I correct? Meanwhile, if my own case can be taken as a reli...

To which I'll just add that I don't think this expression is in common use in Britain.

If one chose the mock-terrapin soup from a false prospectus that also offered alligatawny, the experience would be truly ersatz... No, unreally!

Nina, I have a few comments about your form. Firstly, you have submitted this posting to four different forum areas of this site. This is not very considerate of our site visitors. Secondly, people would need to copy and paste your entire posting into theirs in order to give them a framework for the...

As in:

Here's a well-USed lawyer for sale,
Thrash him uphill and whack him down Dale.

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