http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/squid/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/squid/comment-page-1/#comment-148022 The Damp Squid Quiz: The Answers : OUPblog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:06:47 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2308#comment-148022 [...] Yesterday I gave you a fun little quiz about the original forms of commonly-used phrases. How many did you guess correctly? The answers are below, along with an extract from the book - Damp Squid by Jeremy Butterfield - which explains what happens with some of these changes in the English language. [...] [...] Yesterday I gave you a fun little quiz about the original forms of commonly-used phrases. How many did you guess correctly? The answers are below, along with an extract from the book – Damp Squid by Jeremy Butterfield – which explains what happens with some of these changes in the English language. [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/squid/comment-page-1/#comment-147995 Bookninja » Blog Archive » More on annoying phrases Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:27:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2308#comment-147995 [...] blog have written in, having noticed the furor on our own boards about most-hated-phrases, and note their own post, which explains that there’s more to the book than a list of hated phrases, and offers a quiz on the evolution of certain well-known sayings. Those of you who are, like me, [...] [...] blog have written in, having noticed the furor on our own boards about most-hated-phrases, and note their own post, which explains that there’s more to the book than a list of hated phrases, and offers a quiz on the evolution of certain well-known sayings. Those of you who are, like me, [...]

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