Description:
English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
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Wonk
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From page 2 of of the Sunday Times Supplement, 15 November, under the title "There's some smart thinking in Cameron's simple vision of the Big Society":- "[...] Cameron did this by name-checking no fewer than 15 intellectuals and thinkers -- some dead, some Labour, most American. Recently, Tory wonks,... more »
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Llangollen Blues
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Creamed potatoes are *not* boiled potatoes served in half a pint of double cream. DC
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convertable
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Why is the word convertible and not convertable? Is there some rule?
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James: decked him out
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Hello: Is this from cards, "decked him out?" Its meaning? "Bristling total," the uncomfortable/aggressive totality of men? --- [Stether and Miss Gostrey have an on-and-off relationship] She had been wonderful to him at first, with the memory of her little entresol, the image to which, on most mornings at that time, his eyes... more »
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James: forehead/brow
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Hello: Any difference in style or usage between "forehead" and "brow" in such a context? --- [Sally Pocock visits Paris] What had told in any case at the window of the train was her high clear forehead, that forehead which her friends, for some reason, always thought of as a "brow"; the long reach of her eyes—it came out... more »
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