Discussion Groups / English Usage / September 2010

Is "chewed paper" in
"the nest would be just so much chewed paper"
something really common for saying "totally destroyed?"
Or is it just used by the author?

SDC= Q23: What's My Function?
Here's a YouTube playlist of eight music clips.  What's the theme?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=63A3D17DD21E9E62
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What do these four quotations have in common? The answer should be the name
of a bawn associated with 1 Peter 2:17.
Suffering is one very long moment.  We cannot divide it by seasons. We can
only record its moods, and chronicle their return.

He was briefly a tin magnate, though a tin magnet would have been little
stranger than some of the ideas he floated. His cousin once promoted a
song that later promoted a shampoo that's now promoted as being even
more natural than back then because it now includes a cationic

Is this an usual use of "hold" in:
" not holding her husband right?"
I understand it about the baby.
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Which is correct:
a. I am reading War and Peace by Tolstoy.
b. I am reading War and Peace, by Tolstoy.

What fraction appears on the right-hand side in the poem?

TV reports of the funeral of the late Jimmy Reid showed clips of a speech in
which he said there was to be "no bevvying" (at first I thought he said
"babying").
What does it mean?

"If brains was black powder he couldn't blow his own nose."
his brain is so small that the load of power would be too small even
for that, right?
"It's a pity the things you see when you ain't got a gun"

On what planet are Tex, Pal, and Acity aristocratic surnames?

Does
"exposure on"
mean
"view towards"