jock123
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RE: By the Seat of Your Pants

With a name like Granny Gordon, and the description of her as a Presbyterian by the caller, my guess is that the family hailed from Scotland at some t...

10 years ago
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RE: I just barely got here

Ò€œI just barely got hereÒ€ would be perfectly familiar to a British English speaker, so I don't know that it is neccessarily a calque/ Spanish thing...

13 years ago
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RE: Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It (full episode)

In re: Ò€œBumbershootÒ€/ Ò€œbumberchuteÒ€ for Ò€œumbrellaÒ€, I'd be interested to know why some Americans appear to think it is a British word? As ...

13 years ago
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RE: Why is zero plural?

Perhaps it's because there's nothing that logically says any other number than one is singularÒ€¦? In the list as described, only Ò€œthere is one ite...

13 years ago
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RE: gazump

The way to get round that is to sell your house under Scots Law, rather than English Law (you can choose to do so anywhere in the U.K.), as offers are...

13 years ago
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RE: Pronouncing "The" - Thee or Thuh - duh?

I have to say I use them interchangeably, and I've never (before the podcast) heard mention of this notion that there is any sort of difference; in Br...

13 years ago
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RE: How's it going? (It's going)

It provides information, in as far as the question is provoking a boolean response Γ’β‚¬β€œ the reply could be, Ò€œIt's not goingÒ€. If the question was e...

13 years ago
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RE: When did "guys" begin to include "gals"?

Ò€œYouseÒ€ is stereotypical of a Glaswegian speaking in Scotland, and is used (Ò€œyousedÒ€? ) in exactly the way described above; a bus conductor m...

13 years ago
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RE: Apostrophes

slafaive said: "Horticulturalist Professionals Seminar." She asked me where the apostrophe would go. Of course, I said after the "s" on "Profess...

13 years ago
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RE: Her Majesty The Queen

I'm surprised that this is thought exceptional, as it isn't just a facet of monarchy but honorifics in general, and especially as the U.S. retains tit...

13 years ago
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