Thank you for including the information about Saudi. You might have included the fact that evidently MBS suggested anyone objecting to being removed from the path of this grand new idea be eliminated (in the old Mafia-speak meaning of the word). One other comment, though. While I agree with the hist...

I might suggest there are a number of stratagems for lasting peace, Middle East or anywhere else. What's lacking is not answers. What's lacking is the will. In most cases lately it would seem that maintaining power to protect personal interests/positions takes precedence over any consideration for l...

under word history, should it not be
informatio(n)?

David, I think you may have that confused with U.S. slang. Here it means to get someone pregnant, but in U.K., I believe it just means to awaken or get the attention of. There are many many "jokes" about Americans being confused by the U.K. usage while traveling-- either the American in Lo...

Slava, thank you for the link. Yes, I "hear" a difference between the two also, but was less acutely aware of that fact before your welcome information. I was especially struck by what I think is a side issue. "With this in mind, it’s important to choose your words carefully to ensure...

Dear Doctor, thank you for that!
Much appreciated.

David, is this a chicken and/orn the egg problem? Is accord easier, more familiar, because more used, and concord less so because less used, or has their level of usage not changed over time? Concord and concordance seem to me just as used and useful as accord and accordance. I'm willing to admit to...

I'm originally from Concord, MA. The name was of course, given by the English who settled there in what was to be the first inland town in the area, after peaceful dialog and an agreement with the local indigenous people. There *was* apparent agreement, but that was because there was no concordance ...

Any chance this could be used for "senior moments" when half way through a sentence, the train of thought leaves the station?

It might, sounding rather posh, afford a bit of face saving grace-- assuming one can manage to remember the whole word.

Slava,
Sounds to me like?that? you have the two ends and the middle.
Was that your take on it as well?

"Artificial intelligence puts mankind on the verge of incredible new power at a time when we are also on the verge of destroying the planet we live on." I would say that AI is an horrific new power that will hasten the destruction of the planet we live on. Another case of profit over peopl...

"The stars becked her spirit with their infinite infinitesimal dances."

Could someone please tell me who wrote this?
Was it you, Good Doctor? or was it a quote from elsewhere...

Either way --- marvelous!

Debby M

Barbara, Found this... "Greetings one & all. My 1st time post. In the 70's there was a Boston show, WCRB Saturday Night. Richard L Kaye was the host. He would play comedy; PDQ Bach, Albert Brooks, Joyce Grenfell, The Goons, to name a few. He played a bit with a Russian man reading Little Re...

Thank you everso, Slava!! Couldn't find that, but I'm not as astute as you in searching the site!!!!

Debby

And if I may make so bold, it is never remiss to show our gratitude by sending along-- by way of commemoration-- a bit of the folding green, in any amount, for any excuse, on any date?
Just a thought...
Debby M