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The use and abuse of the English language, as used in the UK, including serious and humorous examples, likes and dislikes, and the evolution of English.
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Hi all, for a translation of an article I am looking for the correct english terms of the following item: German "Etagenhangbau" = engl ???:...
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by pg
1 yr 316 days ago
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I stumbled upon the latter use recently, and it got me thinking. There seems to be some exceptions to the simple rule that I still use when deciding on...
By Thomas Hejl Pilgaard
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by sprocket
1 yr 318 days ago
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Hello, I have a question. A.) Consider this statement below:- He played music on the Mp3 player in his car, which was newly purchased. Now what connotation...
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by Tony Mountifield
1 yr 344 days ago
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I hope this is the right place to be asking this question: Many newsagents in Ireland (and Wales, so far as I can see) are called "the Gem"....
By Cath
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by Peter Duncanson
1 yr 354 days ago
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Vision express now uses the term "eye exam" instead of "eye examination"...which is correct? I still use eye test. Steve
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by Matti Lamprhey
2 yr 12 days ago
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I am looking for an apt description of the expression on this child's face: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s173/Maestro 50/baby.jpg I don't...
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by Peter Duncanson
2 yr 41 days ago
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I made this small test for you: Choose the correct word (s) to complete each sentence. 1. Hi, Sue. .. a good time?A. Do you have B. Are you having C. You...
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by Einde O'Callaghan
2 yr 44 days ago
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I have a Polish guest in my house, and she has been asking me about the difference between 'this weekend' and 'next weekend'. Midweek,...
By Simon Rayner
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by John Hall
2 yr 60 days ago
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There seems to be a change of usage in progress whereby 'goods' is being replaced by 'good'. SOED p. 1125 gives: 3 (property and possessions...
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Thanks for you guys, especially John Ramsay, Leszek L., Einde O'Callaghan around news groups, I had translated an english nevel to ours, and tossed...
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by Molly Mockford
2 yr 101 days ago
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Yes, yes, yes, I'm now going to be looking for a specialist therapist who can help me with that intense sense of inferiority I'm feeling about...
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I encountered this word while watching a late sixties tv drama. It was used in the sense of calling someone a bad name as in 'you niss!'. The only...
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Good mornig, some question about the word Barbershop and other: 1 Wich is the right spelling: barbershop or barber'shop? 2 I'm looking (working...
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by Blue Sow
2 yr 117 days ago
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As a note on idiomatics the, presumably Chinese, lady on this morning's broadcast 'Culture Shock' seemed to enjoy the benefits of an editing...
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I'm Italian, and when I hear Saxon Languages like English, and German (especially German with cluster like tshcl), it sounds hard... too many consonants...
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Maybe I haven't lived enough places. But it does seem that plenty of cities have pub's named The Town Crier, but very few towns do. Just a thought...
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I think the news that some Indian muslims were invloved in the Car Bomb attacks in Glascow has come as a shock to most Indians. I personally feel that...
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Newsgroups: rec.music.opera Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:59 PM Subject: "The" Wigmore Hall Can someone explain a particular matter of English...
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The s in resource now is pronounced z by most people, but according to one of my old dictionaries in the 70s, it is pronounced s. what if I pronounced...
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Hi, I received an e-mail on Friday (22th of June) last week with the follwoing text: "Next Monday I will contact you for details" Does this mean...
By Eric
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by Einde O'Callaghan
2 yr 151 days ago
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Hi: Is "often" pronounced with the t sound standard in RP? Can I infer something about the speaker's backgroud according to that? Thanks...
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by Anonymous
2 yr 164 days ago
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You will often hear that the word "research" is uncountable in the U.S., but it seems that I find the word "researches" as a countable...
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Hello. I'm searching some place in internet, where i can find people - native english speakers especially from UK, to chat with them to improve my...
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Hello! I am writing a thesis within Information Retrieval. In the thesis I am evaluating retrieval within different ways of organizing document representations...
By Michael Preminger
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by Ildhund
2 yr 184 days ago
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This might not be the correct forum, but it's the best I can think of.. I'm arguing about something, and am being superficially defeated not on...
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by John Briggs
2 yr 187 days ago
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