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What is worse, Erik, posting instructions on folding hospital corners or (presumably) reading the post and then posting the link in order to moan about the person who posted it in the first place?

What worries me is how you found it in the first place...

Watching Rudi Giuliani's hair dye failure on TV tonight reminded me of something ...

Giuliani took it straight from the screenplay of Death in Venice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deUVrtC5_So

What a wonderful film that was!

I think Steven probably meant to write "are you sick of life?" in 2. I think it would be more normal to say "are you tired of life?" or "are you tired of living?", and that could well be appropriate in such a situation. For me, I would probably drive up the road a little, then stop and light up a pi...

For me as a Brit, "too good of a person" is simply too much of a good thing.

The only way of using the construction that I can think of is in the singular:
"He is too good a person to do something like that."

Logically, the construction should also work in the plural as well, but it doesn't.

I for one would certainly never roger a family member...

"Forgettery" has been an established part of my own vocabulary since I first heard it about 15 years ago, but I would only ever use it as part of a humorous comment.

If you intend to use it as a joke, sentence 1 is fine. If you intend it as a serious comment, sentence 2 is better.

In speech, and in most informal writing, we would almost certainly employ some form of ellipsis: The chances of A happening are greater than all the rest combined. The chances of A happening are greater than those of all the rest combined. Pretty well anything that is more grammatically complete sou...

Bobinwales wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 11:46 pm Trump supporters are complaining that people are dressing up as elks to taunt them after the election result.
Don't pay any attention, it is fake gnus.

That may have been the most groanworthy of all the posts I have ever seen on Wordwizard. Well done, Bob!

As Erik said, "muffler" is very much an American term. You will very rarely hear it in the UK and most people would not understand it. For us, the only word is a "scarf".

Recent updates to the servers with our host led to problems with the Wordwizard site, with none of you being able to post anything. I have now upgraded the board software, but have not yet got round to updating the style. I hope to get things back to normal in a few days, but until then everything s...

Is it just me, or does using "doctor" (change in order to deceive) in a statement about something medical seem to somehow detract from the statement? I immediately thought there was some (attempt at) humour injected in there and questioned how serious the statement was. For some reason, I would not...

a) is fine, but b) makes no sense to me. As far as the meaning is concerned, it is not easy to pin down. The closest I can get is something like "literally": The walls fairly/literally shook. He fairly/literally screamed with delight. Historically, I think the meaning is something like "in the prope...

It depends how the sentence is delivered. This usage of "rather" is often very complex. In many cases, it is a heavily understated way of saying that the apples are extremely tasty. This applies, for instance, when the adjective has a positive connotation, as in this case. Depending on context, it c...

The quote you have given is from an article entitled "Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". That is the title of a 1982 children's book by author Judith Viorst. Disney has now made a film with the same name. In both the book and the film, the title character, Alexander, suffe...