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Hi friends, Is the sentence below grammatically okay? "The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's not an arbitrary...
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by Richard Chambers
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I was wondering if someone would tell me if "former" and "latter" are used correctly in the following sentence: "The Chevy and...
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I am currently reading a book written in the late 1940s and the author (British) consistently writes 'shewed' and 'shew' for 'showed'...
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Forwarded message from MichaelP (Email Removed) ( Subject: Fahrenheit 9/11 independent intervention in world politics ( From: MichaelP (Email Removed)...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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by Richard
5 yr 90 days ago
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The New York Times lists 31 apartments in Manhattan in the $500 to $1000 a month range. Needless to say, most of them are far closer to the higher figure...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 90 days ago
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Hi there! Cold someone take a look at the offer below, please? Is this text compresensible? Could you suggest me, what could be improved? Be cruel, if...
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My Lakeland catalogue arrived today an Lo!: http://www.lakelandlimited.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/GBP/ParametricSearch-Start;sid=7qaObSDYyqmaUmH...
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Although no Bill Gates basher, for I'm jealous of no-one, I seriously wonder if Microsoft didn't screw up with Windows XP, releasing it before...
By Charles Riggs
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by david56
5 yr 91 days ago
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Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims: http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Muslims urged to get US 'filth' out of Iraq http://tinyurl.com...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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by William Brennan
5 yr 91 days ago
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Hi, Which phrase is more correct? 1. This time last year I was in Turkey. 1. This time last year I was living in Turkey. Who knows, give me to know about...
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Quick and easy question: is it correct or redundant to use "also" with "besides" or "in addition to" in, for example, the...
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by CyberCypher
5 yr 91 days ago
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In the early 1990s, I remember that many teenage girls would have this croaking voice; I would like to know the model for that voice. Katherine Hepburn...
By Richard Maurer
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by John Ings
5 yr 91 days ago
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MORE ON HANGING OF 16-YR-OLD GIRL IN IRAN Facts about terrorist Islam and Muslims http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate Forwarded message from "G...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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by sirknight67
5 yr 91 days ago
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MADAR JENDEYE SAG MOSALMOUN in q@dr joosh n@xorRR...feshAr'eKhoonet miere bAlA;-(( Ammal'e..I would not MEET U if U were the Last "life form"...
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by sirknight67
5 yr 91 days ago
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I've been reading Bruce Alexander's (or "Bruce Alexander"'s? that can't be right) Sir John Fielding series. They were written...
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by Andrew Gwilliam
5 yr 91 days ago
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When the announcer stated that "all three Americans are through", I actually looked up from my monitor to look at the television. I was certain...
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1. In "Footfalls" (1976), when Beckett says Watch how feat she wheels? is he using an archaism for the sake of wordplay, or is "feat"...
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Is there anyone here who would question 'reposted' as a legitimate English word? Yet I only found one obscure dictionary that even listed 'repost'...
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by Evan Kirshenbaum
5 yr 91 days ago
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Ex-Hindu Christian: Pandita Ramabai Abridged by Colin Melbourne from 'My Inexhaustible Treasure' The story of India's greatest Christian Reformer...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 91 days ago
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Ex-Hindu Christian: Pandita Ramabai Abridged by Colin Melbourne from 'My Inexhaustible Treasure' The story of India's greatest Christian Reformer...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 91 days ago
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McCauley speech of Feb 2, 1835, British Parliament Forwarded message from (Email Removed) ( From: (Email Removed) ( Subject: Lord McCauley in his speech...
By Dr. Jai Maharaj
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by harmony
5 yr 91 days ago
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Ex-Hindu Christian: Pandita Ramabai Abridged by Colin Melbourne from 'My Inexhaustible Treasure' The story of India's greatest Christian Reformer...
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by Dr. Jai Maharaj
5 yr 91 days ago
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Can anyone tell me what the phrase 'irretrievably lost to knowledge' means? Thank you very much. 'Every language has aeons of changes, irretrievably...
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by Michael Nitabach
5 yr 92 days ago
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Quotation from an ad box on my mail page: "Yahoo messenger works seemlessly with Yahoo (mail)". Does this mean it doesn't seem to work with...
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I read this in the paper about measures to counteract financial irregularity in British football: "All directors have to keep a record of all material...
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