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(2025 UK Pun Championships) ---- Only G-Rated (and PG-rated) puns ?
started 2025-02-11 21:10:01 UTC
2025-02-11 22:58:21 UTC
Peter Moylan
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dingbat (Thingbats 03) -- (Rebus from UK)
started 2025-02-05 07:51:18 UTC
2025-02-10 20:57:45 UTC
HenHanna
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Where's that at? (the modality of) (sentence-final At)
started 2025-02-03 03:07:08 UTC
2025-02-10 13:34:44 UTC
LionelEdwards
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(TIL) the rule [Don't split infinitives] comes from the Victorian grammarian Alford's usage book (1864)
started 2025-02-03 01:46:37 UTC
2025-02-10 08:35:46 UTC
Anton Shepelev
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Colin Renfrew passes away (2024-11-24)
started 2024-11-26 14:28:32 UTC
2025-02-09 18:42:17 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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More Big Days
started 2025-02-09 09:04:18 UTC
2025-02-09 14:30:20 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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E.E.Cummings died (3/9/1962)
started 2024-09-04 00:03:22 UTC
2025-02-07 13:12:33 UTC
W.Dockery
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Crime movie used whistling language El Silbo as a plot element
started 2025-02-05 05:05:25 UTC
2025-02-07 04:58:46 UTC
Tilde
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St Brigid's Day (3 February)
started 2025-02-02 09:31:50 UTC
2025-02-04 09:13:56 UTC
Ross Clark
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Meanwhile...
started 2025-01-24 09:03:56 UTC
2025-02-01 17:54:56 UTC
guido wugi
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National Freedom Day?
started 2025-02-01 08:34:50 UTC
2025-02-01 13:02:58 UTC
Stefan Ram
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A New English Dictionary (1/2/1881)
started 2025-01-31 18:43:48 UTC
2025-02-01 12:50:41 UTC
Stefan Ram
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(Temple Grandin's Squeeze-Machine) -- (Bill Gates on Self Stimming)
started 2025-01-26 03:45:35 UTC
2025-01-28 06:39:29 UTC
Aidan Kehoe
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A Rolling Stone was originally the name of a gardening tool to flatten the Lawn.
started 2025-01-25 20:40:22 UTC
2025-01-26 23:54:15 UTC
HenHanna
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Malay for two: dua
started 2025-01-18 17:46:29 UTC
2025-01-26 17:53:05 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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"Rota volvitur, muscus non adhaeret"   
started 2025-01-25 20:46:06 UTC
2025-01-25 21:18:33 UTC
HenHanna
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Do the hurkle-durkle
started 2025-01-23 05:43:16 UTC
2025-01-23 06:00:47 UTC
Jeff Barnett
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Small statistics: The aughts
started 2025-01-20 11:31:40 UTC
2025-01-20 21:19:41 UTC
HenHanna
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(Comp. Ling.) -- Gender Prediction in Social Media: A Case Study of Reddit
started 2025-01-17 22:20:22 UTC
2025-01-17 22:56:38 UTC
Tony Cooper
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Real Days Ahead
started 2025-01-11 23:00:11 UTC
2025-01-12 05:53:11 UTC
HenHanna
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He never noticed their absence; they had each given him an andedna -- all he wanted, all he would ever want, from them.
started 2025-01-12 03:04:04 UTC
2025-01-12 05:44:59 UTC
HenHanna
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Some Real Days
started 2025-01-05 10:26:56 UTC
2025-01-11 19:08:33 UTC
Christian Weisgerber
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While Baudelaire did not invent the notion of the flâneur, ...
started 2025-01-05 20:04:31 UTC
2025-01-09 23:02:17 UTC
HenHanna
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Finishing Crystal
started 2024-12-17 20:22:48 UTC
2025-01-05 10:35:36 UTC
Ross Clark
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(I don't get it) -- "It's all of that, Watson, and a whole lot more..."
started 2025-01-01 07:03:30 UTC
2025-01-04 08:14:00 UTC
Ruud Harmsen
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(remit) -- ( French: envoyer ) -- ( Spanish: enviar ) -- ( Latin: mittere )
started 2024-12-12 17:26:12 UTC
2025-01-04 08:04:58 UTC
Ruud Harmsen
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Garnet -- etym. in OED?
started 2024-12-30 22:08:40 UTC
2024-12-31 01:34:25 UTC
HenHanna
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"Europeans and their languages" (2024)
started 2024-12-27 15:32:22 UTC
2024-12-29 09:04:45 UTC
Athel Cornish-Bowden
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($1) -- $5? -- $10? -- (Bills  raining down from the Balcony)
started 2024-12-25 21:12:02 UTC
2024-12-29 04:15:06 UTC
HenHanna
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Elizabethans didn't think of [He will away] as an abbreviation of [He will go away]
started 2024-12-16 20:45:09 UTC
2024-12-24 23:55:26 UTC
Peter Moylan
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