Discussion Groups / English Usage / June 2007

I am enjoying a Haydn Baryton Trio on BBC Radio 3 as I type.

Shirley I wasn't the only one to notice that Dr Brown, our new great
leader, promised to do his "outmost", was I?
I am, though, quite pleased that, after ten long years, the
prime minister is now older than me again.

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I wonder if I can call a tourist guide who only does his tours in a
certain city a city guide?
Thanks?

It's searchable:
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Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

We're having a dispute over this sentence:
"The page is backward".
The person who wrote it is very sure it is correct in meaning "texts or
images are printed backwards (like a mirrored image) on a page". His

I just finished (hopefully) an Ebay deal with the
most arrogant, demanding person you can imagine. Here's
an actual quote: "I am not inclined to spend $1 for
a Money order and additional expense for a stamp."

One of my classmate was talking to professor, and before I realized I
said "Sir; chances of lion being vegetarian is far higher than
anything coming out of this mouth."
I am wondering if I should have said "far grater" instead of "far

Well, okay, not exactly Hollywood.  But he now has his own weekly
online column at the Oxford University Press blog.  His maiden effort
can be found at:
http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/dictionary/

Further news about the Newcastle floods. In a news report about damage
sustained in one shopping street, we heard "... and in the hairdressing
salon across the street, five electric chairs, costing thousands of
dollars each, were destroyed."

here are two sentences,please advise,very thanks
there exists systematically large and remarkably large discrepancies
between the prediction obtained from global/local 3-shock theories and
the experiments of the regime of simple MR and vNR, as Ms and (or) QW

I've seen this written:
 How in Heavens did you come up with [...]?
Well, there's heaven, and there is the [Christian] Heaven.  There's also the
heavens.  But there ain't no Heavens.

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What is the origin of the term "make out" (kissing, etc)?

I've been trying to understand some of the French phrases
that Hercule Poirot uses in Agatha Christie novels.  In most
cases I can understand from the context what he's probably
saying, and I can usually get what I think is an idiomatic