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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 there Can anyone point me to a site where I can download an English dictionary in a format I can load into a database? I'm hoping to download in...
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I am having an argument with the RFC-Editor. My co-author had written: but some of them may be required in certain types of article. and she changed it...
By Charles Lindsey
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by Yvan Hall
42 days ago
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The Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor (author of =91The Great Indian Novel=92) was in the eye of a storm for answering a question...
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Hi all I recently came across the following reply in an (American) play: 'Beaty don't know nothing! Hills of beans have flags in them announcing...
By Joachim
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Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by Dorothy Parker? ... My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,...
By Helmut Jasper
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by Molly Mockford
111 days ago
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"By the time I'm going home, the rain shall/will have stopped." Are both shall/will allowed in current-day BrE, in this context, in all registers...
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Just to keep this group alive... Yet again I hear on the wireless that a victim of violence is - and has been for several days - in a 'critical but...
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Hello, I'm not an Englishman, it might be the reason why some affairs in English are problematic for me. Let's take the defined article - "the"...
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I have an instance where someone is using "English" (probably not AmerEnglish) words when writing and I wondered if these can give a reasonable...
By Sanforized
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by Einde O'Callaghan
291 days ago
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Hi ! I'm Barbara from Rome. At present days, I'm attending high school and I'm deeply involved in learning English, although (as you, probably...
By Barbara.Vanvitelli
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by Barbara.Vanvitelli
301 days ago
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Dear People (especially those in the US), I am a PhD student in economics and I am going to hold a web questionnaire that will take place in the US. The...
By minimus
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I am somewhat confused about the proper British pronunciation of words like "ordinarily", "temporarily", and "momentarily"...
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Hi everybody! I'm italian and I study english Is possible to find any files audio or texts regarding train's announcement or Airplane's announcements...
By samy_go
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A reader of the community newsletter I edit has objected violently to a regular (satirical) columnist's use of this denomination for one of our councillors...
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The broadcast media seem to have decided that "Ralph" should be pronounced "rafe". I've known of, for example, Ralph Richardson...
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"Convince" seems to have replaced "persuade" almost completely in UK broadcasting. It seems totally wrong to me to say, for example...
By Bill Smith
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by Bill Smith
1 yr 1 days ago
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How democratic is your ESL classroom? Who gets to speak in class? Whose ideas count? Who chooses the assignments? How do students receive feedback? Do...
By Anonymous
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by Chuck Riggs
1 yr 2 days ago
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Does anyone know the English word meaning 'almond-eyed'. Many thanks Pete
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"... o somos o no somos" It was haunting me since I had recently re-read it, to the point that has forced me to write a new post in this blog...
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The news has been full of large numbers in the last few days. I was taught as a child (1950s) that 'billion' was a million millions, and 'trillion'...
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Hello, I am looking for the right pronunciation of fractions in British English. Every style guide I find is very clear about thirds, quarters and fifths...
By Panayotis Papaspyrou
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by Ildhund
1 yr 45 days ago
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Hello All. I would like to meet nice native English speakers. Who have enough leisure time to make an email exchange with me. We can discussion about...
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There's a Web page headed "Learnglish" that has a huge number of alt.usage.english postings that are offered without, so far as I've...
By Heronerous Boss
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by Django Cat
1 yr 65 days ago
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Hello All. I would like to ask about how to study English by oneself? I was on course in language school. It was terrible time form me. I achieve only...
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I'm starting to notice, more and more, a strange and - to my ear - clumsy construction for the subjunctive. The latest instance, on Radio 4 just now...
By Molly Mockford
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by Molly Mockford
1 yr 71 days ago
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