Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009

I wonder what's the exact meaning of "took out" in this context.
From the book, it doesn't seem Sillery is taking the students out in
the city or to any restaurants as such.
He seems to either:

What college major would be the most beneficial to future
lexicographers?
What did most lexicographers actually major in?
Which colleges or universities have the best programs in lexicography?

You're sure you don't want to read an English grammar in verse, from
1835?
Sample:
The /personal pronouns/ persons do express ;

No, I don't know where it comes from,
and I recall its being used in my fraternity
in the early 1940s, so you'll have to go
back farther than that to get an answer.

"at staff length" was used in the movie, _Practical Magic_.  This is
the first  time I've run across the term, and a Google search reveals
only a couple of occurrences outside references to the movie. Is this
term archaic, rarely used, or simply an invention of the screen

Who's cutting a dance:
- the woman stopping from dance to change partners?
or
- the man intervening to have her dance with him, while she's already

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English speakers sometimes use the auxilary "do" before a lexical verb
in a sentence for emphasis. If the lexical verb in a sentence is "do",
is it acceptable and grammatically correct to use the auxilary "do"
before it for emphasis? Like:

Heard on the radio this morning:
"What should one do to protect themself... "

I'm not sure why I expected "squeezing _herself_" here:
----
Lady McReith went off into such peals of laughter at this, wriggling
and squeezing, that Babs, freeing herself, turned and shook her until

"Tape-machine," is this a telegraph used in horse racing?
----
[In a public school in the UK, in the twenties]
Two or three boys were as usual standing in front of the noticeboard

Does
"I felt little interest in possible danger,"
for some reason, sound better than:
"I felt little interest in the possible danger?"

Was/Is this "Barnes" a well-known stadium, close to London?
---
[Widmerpool boasting about his sports activities]
'I don't get much time for games now,' he said. 'Though once in a way

"The media is devoting their entire newscasts - yesterday the death of Ed
McMahon, today Farrah and then Michael Jackson (of natural causes, I might
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