Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010

Just started this book (a Western) and was very impressed with the
phrase, IIRC,
'We was euchred'!
Looked it up in my Concise Oxford Dictionary and it's to do with a

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I know the difference between the two concepts["definitive" and
"final"] To prove that I've done my homework I submit the dictionary
entries. My question is on usage. Is "definitive" still in use,
notwithstanding its  archaic sound? Or is it "final" preferable where

More words from the days of B&W TV
I watched an episode of The Rifleman, with Chuck Conners sp? tonight,
and he and his son spend a night with a wagon train.  Before he goes
to sleep, he tells his kid to wait until they leave the next day to

The Tea Party Convention was ended on last Saturday (Feb 6th, 2010).  On
the following Monday (Feb 8th, 2010), there was a news paper article on
the the meeting  (the Wall Street Journal).   The first line of the
article started with:

What could be the meaning of "drawing" here?
Also, "defective" seems to me too technical.
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[Bad, painful tooth]

"O book, O chants!  Must all then amount to but this?"
      -- Walt Whitman (In "As the Time Draws Nigh")
"Is that all there is?"
      -- Peggy Lee (Song)

Most of the time we see this symbol, it's either a Germanic umlaut or
a dieresis. "Risë" is obviously a different beast. Wikipedia has an
article on the e-umlaut, but it didn't do me much good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ë

How to cut down the number of 'and' in the following sentence?
"You can go to a nearby college and take courses, so that you will
learn to debate in a civilized manner, or continue to read tabloids
and exchange views over beer and cigarettes with your fellow men in a

With the current UK news about a married footballer allegedly being
unfaithful to his with with an unmarried woman it raised the question
of whether the unmarried woman could be called an adulteress. Or would
she be a fornicator? I guess fornicatrix is kind of archaic these

What's the meaning of this sentence:
Do you need a diaper change and burp?

The quoted ones previusly are what I changed to make it simple.
I'm afraid that this act might have made the sentences unclear ane
even unnatural.
Let me put the original sentences from a novel.

We've had the second blizzard of an unusually mild winter (for us) and
on Saturday I was rather annoyed to discover that someone had taken it
all too seriously (or possibly considered the fact that they hadn't
cleared the steps or the parking lot) and closed the building ...

Recently I stick to cartoons' English.
Yea, I'm aware that it's the last thing learners challenge.
http://www.lightstriking.com/test/01.jpg
It's quite hard to grasp the whole thing.

The phrase "worst case scenario" is often used, though the scenario
indicated by it is sometimes so unlikely that it is scarcely worth
considering.  By definition, the "worst case" is an extreme: it
contains the most horrid tip of the bell curve of possible events.