I'm often told I need a better sense of humor. Hopefully I can learn from your entertaining wit!
Here's the belated welcome template, just in case...
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Thank you for your great work with the logo. Best regards Rhanyeia♥♫ 07:24, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
I made quite many color varieties in order to find a good version where the tiles wouldn't resemble Scrabble. I came up with the version 12b on Wiktionary:Beer parlour#More logo conversation. Maybe you'd like to comment it? :) Best regards Rhanyeia♥♫ 19:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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It is virtually impossible to have a normal-user-findable entry that reflects the full range of variation for idiomatic constructions. See w:Construction grammar for some background on linguistic thought on the subject. Consider:
Maybe it would be more useful to include usage example or citations for the most common forms in an entry for and his mother. The search function would put such an entry at the top of the search results for most of the common variations, even if they were not word-for-word included in the usage examples or citations. DCDuring TALK 12:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
You may as well just have the entry for everyone and his mother. There is a citation from The Great Gatsby for it. DCDuring TALK 12:10, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Smuzza. Would you like to be nommed for adminship? --Itkilledthecat (talk) 22:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
No, no, I'm not saying the definition is related to hash browns, but I think the etymology is a blend of hash browns and brownies, rather than hash + brownie. It's debatable anyway, and not very important. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:16, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. I'm pretty sure that this is just a tame version of (deprecated template usage) bollocking. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:15, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
For this. — Ungoliant (Falai) 00:53, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Does it also mean fellow traveller (in the sense of a Communist sympathiser)? SemperBlotto (talk) 11:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
How do you like them? I've been pushing them for a couple of years, but I think you're the first to use them on the discussion pages.
COCA and BNC may be the stars, but the web corpus and COHA have their uses. DCDuring TALK 15:33, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your message; it is so important to establish the truth in every instance. Thank you so much for your message; it is so important to establish the truth in every instance. I was caught out by misreading that Old English writing includes all kinds of words representing 'sea', such as the 'deep' et cetera, because there was no actual word of Indo-European, other than of Germanic origin specifying this - I must admit that this was very hard to believe; and I particularly appreciate your correction as to this in a public site, in order to identify the truth here. I still believe, however, that the Old English lexeme is of older form than all its cognates except for Gothic that is the link between this and the Germanic root. MERE is certainly Germanic, and the etymology follows through quite logically there. My due apologies! I particularly appreciate your correction as to this in a public site, in order to identify the truth here. I still believe, however, that the Old English lexeme is of older form than all its cognates except for Gothic that is the link between this and the Germanic root. MERE is certainly Germanic, and the etymology follows through quite logically there. The only analogy to that lexeme that might very dubiously have been carried that from British is MOOR - the German form being borrowed, and possibly the Dutch too - the Semantic changes being also found in Cornish HAL (moor < marsh < mere, in meaning only). The influence on the British language of the Saxons, Angles and Norse was complete in the higher classes and gradually influenced all classes. You would realise that earlier raids took place of the Belgæ et cetera, and that is where Gothic fits. However, the working class retained a number of words in speech. The generic pronunciation of Ā in English testifies to the carry over of that of Gallic, found in Old Cornish but not Middle Cornish. Most, if not all other European languages maintain the normal Ā pronuciation as in non-Midland fĀther, Scottish wrĀth, et cetera. Have adjusted my paragraph. Andrew H. Gray 09:49, 3 December 2015 (UTC)Andrew
Could you please post a boldface keep, delete or abstain at WT:RFD#these kingdoms? It would help close the discussion. Thanks. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:56, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
The link to "Stephen R. Donaldson ate my dictionary" now goes to some scummy cybersquatter selling fake rip-off handbags. Equinox ◑ 19:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)