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How particular words, phrases, and syntactic forms are used; how they originated; and where in the English-speaking world they're prevalent. Homepage
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Someone ends a paragraph with "You don't often associate California with good looking women." Later some Californian pretends to be offended...
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by Reinhold {Rey} Aman
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"Publishers employ thousands of staff *to concern* many different aspects of publishing books, so for a start you can speak to those people who will...
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I feel like an extra comma is needed in the statement below, but I'm not sure. I'm also wondering whether there's already too many commas....
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Why is the word convertible and not convertable? Is there some rule? Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions...
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Dear all, Please help me with the following questions. Thank you very much! 1. Sometimes, I heard people say " health food", but sometimes Iheard...
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In Meet the Huggetts, a BBC 7 radio show from 1959, Mr. Huggett (Jack Warner) kept saying, 'Lummy', which, of course, is, as you would expect and...
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I recently used the expression "fag-end" in a post to a discussion group about transport. I used it in the expression "the fag-end of the...
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by Jan Hyde
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Hello to all. ("The envoy's delicate health had taken great benefit from Bombay, and after his week of sea-sickness his strength and spirits recovered...
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by Bohgosity BumaskiL
yesterday 9:44 am
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Is "to respond" correct usage in the sentence below or should it be changed to "in responding" and "its ability to" added...
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by Robert Lieblich
2 days ago 11:03 pm
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Hi - I checked a dictionary which tells "make believe" meaning "to pretend". Then, when a sentence like this, "The firm's...
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Hi I wanted to ask this question for long, but thought it's silly to. Anyway, I could afford to be silly, so I ask now. When people say "I will...
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Hi I saw "30-story building" and "30-storeyed building", wonder if both are acceptable, or one is wrong, I mean the "-ed"...
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1:25 ' 'whereas we have been...' Iain
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This morning on Weekend Edition Sunday, i heard an interviewee say, "...I came to be abhorred by it", meaning (in common usage) that he came...
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Hi, Could anyone tell me what does "I was ready with a pitch" mean? In Alan Greenspan's book, I found this sentence, he talked with Clinton...
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There is one word which signals to me more than any other that something has been written by a yank and that word is ... some of you may have already guessed...
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I can't think of a term for the lowest part of a male voice, the part that sounds like a frog croaking. Some really annoying radio announcers try to...
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Hello. "He seems to know what he is about." Does this mean that he is (or appears to be) skilled at his job? 1. Is it common? or 2. Is it a truncated...
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What is better: Can I help you ? How can I help you? OR May I help you? How can I help you? What can I do for you? OR What may i do for you?
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Dear all, We know that cats meow, dogs bark, wolves howls and lion roars. Then what verb do we use to decribe the sound of frog? I google a possible answer...
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Some long term news reporter/anchor on NBC said, "We are efforting to restore the signal from Fort Hood." It would be better if old dogs couldn't...
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Can anybody help me, please? Is it grammatically correct to say "suffer from an injury"??? if yes, is this form commonly used? Thanks a lot
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Marr asked Caine if he would ever appear on the stage again... 'No - I had eight years of that - the theatre is like a woman you love very much who...
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Would you punctuate "I wonder how it does that" with a period or a question mark? It seems clearly a statement, yet it would be expanded to "I...
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My guess is that this topic has been discussed here already. Anyway... If a census is implemented in a non-exhaustive fashion (using sampling methods...
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