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From personal experience with frozen pipes, I can tell you that I was able to thaw them by gently heating them with a propane torch because they were...

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I once had a discussion with a native Serbian speaker. She told me that in school she was told that S and R are also vowels, and pointed out that they...

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Yes, sometimes the suffix is "or" or "ar". But that would not be the case for the examples I mentioned. I believe I recently tried...

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It's long been a rule in standard English that any action verb will take an -r or -er ending to mean "someone or something that --". So. a...

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As a matter of curiosity, what happened to the records for those boards? Were they all reset, too?

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So I probably didn't avoid being a polemic. But I hope I avoided a screed.

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There is a certain lexicological rigidity in academia, trying to force English to be what it is not. It is rather like the SOWPODS insistence that words...

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SOWPODS is an actual valid word list. It's not complete and the omissions are profoundly annoying. If you have a word list small enough that it can...

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This game does NOT use the SOWPODS word list. Perhaps it started with that, but it's been expanded far beyond that. The SOWPODS list is flawed in so...

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Ah -- "tempest in a teacup" might have rung some bells. Probably not, though. "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king...

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One of my uncles had that problem. He died unexpectedly. The house looked like a bargain room at a thrift store -- room after room with racks, all filled...

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I meant to say "They THINK they're normal."

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Hoarders always have a reason for everything, too. It was a really good price. I always liked that, You can never have too much. I forgot I had one...

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I fail to see the problem. I see a lot of scoring opportunities, though, and a lot of points available. Perhaps if there were fifteen Zs I might have...