Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2007

I am not sure whether this is the right group to post this query;
however, I could not find anything more suitable.
I cannot recall two words(!) and do not know how I can rediscover them
other than a 'Hail Mary' on the Web.  (I did consult two thesaurii,

MW online:
Main Entry: jet lag
Function: noun

Is the following sentence too long?  How would you shorten it?
Thanks
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"I had been suffering from eczema for over 20 years, and during this

While I'm not a fan of the show, I did watch "Ramsay's Kitchen
Nightmares" t'other night.  The number of times he said "f.ck" or
"f.cking" was close to uncountable.
It wasn't just used in scenes with the restaurant staff; it was used

Hi, there!
Many a man has succumbed to a beautiful woman.
Many a little boy has wanted to become a fireman.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.

There was an article in yesterday's Guardian about this year's
National Bumblebee Nest Survey -- I can't give a link to it, as the
on-line version appears to be much shorter and doesn't include the
part that caught my eye -- in which the writer wrote of "X nests per

Been rereading the autobiography of John Masters (As he says in the preface
to the third volume 'an explanation of how an English fighting man became an
American writing man'
He became quite the baseball fan when he settled in the USA and I enjoyed

This is a translation from neapolitan language (Naples, Italy) to
american english.
Can anyone check it? Thanks in advance.
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Watching the UK TV news about the floods, I keep hearing references to
'raw sewage'.
What's the alternative? Fried? Poached? Served with Chinese noodles
and 'sik in loo' sauce?

I keep hearing people use  "by right" in non-legal, day-to-day
conversations. It appears in situations where the meaning would be "
correct way of doing" something. Is this appropriate usage? I used to
think that "by right" is used as in birthright/legal right, etc and

I have a notion!!!Can someone prove it wrong??
for eg...I had a notion that noone can prove me wrong. Vineet proved
this notion wrong by proving me wrong.
Is this correct usage??

I'm thinking of using one of the below sentences as a working title
for a short story.
1) Love is like this and that.
2) Love is like this and like that.

Just wondering....

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I am writing a research paper with some colleagues (we are all non-
native speakers.) One of them is obsessed with the following way of
listing or enumerating elements or events in a phrase: "The
concomitant SCM-version is (i) able to grasp essential details of the