Forum: Windows 7 Forum
January 24th 15, 01:46 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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nerve-racking experience
On 24/01/15 11:39, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:30:33 -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:43:15 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:07:33...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 25th 14, 12:06 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 25/12/14 06:55, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Yeah - I have friends who will send e-mails with photos embedded, rather
than attached or linked to.
That's one good thing about Facebook, at least if...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 24th 14, 11:53 PM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 25/12/14 00:46, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 07:36:52 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:
May your customary celebrations with family and fiends bring you peace,
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 24th 14, 04:16 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 24th 14, 03:27 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 24/12/14 11:33, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:46:06 -0500, Oliver Cromm wrote:
* Peter Moylan:
On 22/12/14 11:06, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:23:53...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 24th 14, 03:23 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 24th 14, 02:40 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 24/12/14 06:10, John Varela wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:35:03 UTC, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:
On 22 Dec 2014 20:28:40 GMT, John Varela wrote:
You're new here...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 23rd 14, 11:40 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
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Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 22/12/14 14:18, Wolf K wrote:
I'll say what I said to most of the people we met the Have a good
Christmas.
Or whatever winter solstice feast you celebrate.
The one I celebrate is...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 23rd 14, 11:32 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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On 23/12/14 11:05, Char Jackson wrote:
On 22 Dec 2014 20:28:40 GMT, "John Varela" wrote:
Easy. Clockwise is the direction in which the sun moves across the
sky to an...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 12:39 PM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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On 22/12/14 21:41, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Ah, in north-east England that could be confused with "toon army",
which refers to the supporters of Newcasstle United football club
(the town...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 08:13 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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Replies: 386
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Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 22/12/14 10:06, Robert Bannister wrote:
On 21/12/2014 11:54 pm, Dr Nick wrote:
Of course it wasn't a digital aerial I needed, it was a wideband one.
But I did need it (I tried...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 08:06 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
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On 22/12/14 10:38, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
I say "merry, marry, and Mary" differently and people hear them as being
the same. Those same people also pronounce all three the same, rhyming
with my...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 07:51 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 22/12/14 05:06, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Whereas German doesn't have the ch as in English church or chocolate. It
_does_ have a ch sound that _we_ don't; it shares this with Scottish,
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 07:47 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 07:44 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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On 22/12/14 04:42, Wolf K wrote:
There's one single-letter grapheme that stands for two phonemes, and you
will see it in this paragraph.
Only one?
--
Peter Moylan ...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 22nd 14, 07:38 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 21st 14, 09:34 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 21st 14, 09:16 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 21st 14, 09:12 AM Posted to alt.usage.english,alt.windows7.general
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Cable, landline, wireless and satellite
On 21/12/14 10:29, Robert Bannister wrote:
On 21/12/2014 4:52 am, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:26:23 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 19th 14, 12:06 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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Replies: 386
Views: 10,626
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On 19/12/14 09:02, Wolf K wrote:
On 2014-12-18 2:16 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:17:50 -0500, Mayayana wrote:
| The Brits are very prone to cutesy terms. So...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 18th 14, 07:53 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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On 18/12/14 12:44, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Though the term twisted pair is little used and does sound a little
quaint, it's far from outdated in the UK: the majority of plain
telephone...
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Forum: Windows 7 Forum
December 15th 14, 11:34 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.usage.english
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On 15/12/14 17:54, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've now realised that some people have been using "landline" to mean
something different from I mean by it, so having cleared up that confusion it
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