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4236It gets rarer and rarer each day.Stan-5/6/2011
4235Thank you. That's a high compliment, these days.Cogito-5/6/2011
4234<i>Call me a purist.</i> I'd just call you reasonable.Stan-5/6/2011
4233>>He also qualifies his statement in the same interview, "You really Cogito-5/6/2011
4232Why doesn't Cormac McCarthy use quotation marks when writing dialogue? CormTom Clarke-5/6/2011
4231>>"Mr Panetta also told the network that the US Navy Seals made the fCogito-5/6/2011
4230"Mr Panetta also told the network that the US Navy Seals made the final decTimF-5/6/2011
4229Silly Indians hol·o·caust /'h?l??k?st, 'ho?l?-/ Show Spellaverage joe-4/21/2011
4228'Holocaust' comment not appropriate: Layton CBC News Posted: Apr 21, 20average joe-4/21/2011
4227What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness The decline and fall of American EE82/24/2011
4226I had a random memory-retrieval event today... It revolved around my use of the Jacques Chitte-1/30/2011
4225The key is to stay relaxed. (grin) lol- when I wrote the original post I thoughJacques Chitte-1/28/2011
4224>>There are parts of Appalachia where one can still get holped by a neighbCogito-1/28/2011
4223There are parts of Appalachia where one can still get holped by a neighbor.Jacques Chitte-1/28/2011
4222King James English (@1611) uses archaic verbs: shew, shewed and holpen. But thiStan-1/28/2011
4221Appallen? I can imagine you would be. That would be enough to make me go out aCogito-1/28/2011
4220Something of which I am seeing more every day: lazy verb conjugation. Today'Jacques Chitte-1/28/2011
4219I will need to be a good sport about this. While dictionary.com gives privilege Jacques Chitte-1/27/2011
4218The OED shows "the state of being male or female (typically used with referCogito-1/27/2011
4217Protagoras started it by copping "feminine" and "masculine" Stan-1/27/2011
4216My inner curmudgeon thanks you for the research into the antiquity of incorrect Jacques Chitte-1/27/2011
4215I became curious enough from your post to take a look, and found out that if theStan-1/27/2011
4214 Here is another story of something similar ---- Paediatrician attacks 'iTimF-1/27/2011
4213I am now literally laughing out loud. Well, I was for a few moments there.Cogito-1/27/2011
4212Maybe this belongs on My Dictionary, but it could be argued that a prostrate glaJacques Chitte-1/27/2011
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