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Originally, though - WWII, I believe - the meaning was the exact opposite: one's luck had run out. Somehow it got turned around at least by the time I was young, and this more auspicious colloquial usage has consistently been the only one I've ever encountered for the phrase as it exists now. Maybe...

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:46 pm I have to say we lucked out

I never understood that expression. What does it mean?

... and apart from whatever stuff you’d care to take with you, you could choose only one low D whistle... Which low D would that be? Heck, ok, you're allowed to bring another whistle in another key as well. Otherwise you'd probably get dehydrated by only playing tunes in D and G😂 :D I don't think y...

In the past, I wrote a few that would fit the bill ... I suppose I could share, but I'd second Sirchronique - I'd say write your own.

I didn't pick up on GreenWood's reference to "Normans" using "Bram" as short for "Abraham". Keen on making things French, ain't he? The use of the name "Bram" was, and still is to an extent, common in Britain and Ireland. Bram Stoker, for instance. Wikipedia s...

Now there's a clickbait touting "The test that will tell you if someone is a psychopathy". My confident is not exactly brimming. Leaving aside the daft error in that for a moment ... I've taken one of those 'Are you a psycopath?" tests on several occasions. Sometimes they tell me I a...

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:20 pm

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 1:40 pm

kkrell wrote:Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part.

So meta.

Yes.

I know. I did think that. I thought it might have been a cunning ploy on Kevin's part.

What I really don't want to do, and always try to avoid, is to pick up on others' use of English ... but I'm really struggling with this phrase of yours: Now, over in financial news, in a GlobeNewswire press release for a new biotech startup, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, states: I've read...

What I really don't want to do, and always try to avoid, is to pick up on others' use of English ... but I'm really struggling with this phrase of yours: Now, over in financial news, in a GlobeNewswire press release for a new biotech startup, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, states: I've read ...

GreenWood wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 6:48 am

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:31 am As a complete aside, is there such a thing as an 'anti-sesquipedalianist'? If so, where do I sign up?

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As a complete aside, is there such a thing as an 'anti-sesquipedalianist'? If so, where do I sign up?

CoastWinds wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:04 am I don't yet know if forum rules allow me to link to YouTube videos

They do - Mod.

Ben, do you have a link to that news segment? I'd like to hear the reporter's pronunciation, but so far can't find anything with her in it; just a bunch of gentle murmuring and atmospheric krummhorns, or whatever they are. Hmmm .. I didn't save it. I probably should have or linked to it, or somethi...

Ben, do you have a link to that news segment? I'd like to hear the reporter's pronunciation, but so far can't find anything with her in it; just a bunch of gentle murmuring and atmospheric krummhorns, or whatever they are. Hmmm .. I didn't save it. I probably should have or linked to it, or somethi...