Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2008

The "of its kind" in the last sentence is quite tricky, to me at least.
I am not sure it means
"in itself"
but that what I'd have in the context.

What is the meaning of the phrase "second life"?

where are you from?

Clinton: "Day One".
Obama: "Yes we can" or "Yes, we can".
McCain: "My friends, another hundred years".
Huckabee: "March on, Christian soldiers! (I'm just kidding)".

A bouncy young woman, equipped with the appropriate ID and fundraising
stuff, has just been at my door asking if I'd "seen a person with
epilepsy before".
Quite apart from finding this approach patronising, I did wonder some

Does
"what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and heaven"
mean
"what do such fellows as he mean/intend by crawling between earth and

In the light of a recent discussion on whether "corn" still means
"grain" in BrE, the following leapt out at me when reading:
"Beyond Death's garden were fields of corn, their golden sheen the only
colour in the landscape.  Death may not have been any good at grass

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I hear this misused daily.
As an accountant, I may calculate interest on a daily basis, but I
would probably do it once a year.

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I'm not getting this part:
"No; deuce a bit of a lady in the case, Mr. Pip, except one"
I could take it to mean
"the devil was incarnated in a woman in this case"

Why do old abbreviations that are perfectly fine have to get longer?
Until 1964 or maybe much later, Post Office Box was abbreviated (or
whatever the right term is) POB.
Who didn't understand that in What's My Line

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_Gallerist_. Clearly, one who owns or, perhaps, manages a gallery.
/Guardian/, /Interiors Directory/ (supplement) 23 Feb. '08, p.47. "This
new breed of gallerists, curators and designers is still reliant on the
art world's knowledge and spending."

These things are hard to pin down, but I think I've noticed a fashion
trend in U. S. speech. Instead of answering a question with a simple
"Yes," lately people have been answering with "I" and an echo of the
verb used in the question. This gives an impression of emphasis. This is ...