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Dammit, I agree. Is there any way of ensuring that kids are exposed to the Authorised Version but not (unless they consent) subjected to Christianity? When I took freshman English at Dartmouth (my name-drop-college of the day), one of the standard

Dammit, I agree. Is there any way of ensuring that kids are exposed to the Authorised Version but not (unless they consent) subjected to Christianity? When I took freshman English at Dartmouth (my name-drop-college of the day), one of the standard

23 They that go down to the sea in ships: ... few drinks, I'd even weep for the beauty of it. Dammit, I agree. Is there any way of ensuring that kids are exposed to the Authorised Version but not (unless they consent) subjected to

I very clearly remember being called a "***" by a ... familiar American euphemisms foranatomically impossible acts and improper family relationships. The lower classes are so narrow-minded and intolerant, aren'tthey? But let's

Hmmm. They both sound American or like terms Americans ... Americans say they're unusual I'll go along with the crowd. I very clearly remember being called a "***" by a very American-type last week. I had opened my car door ...

I don't disagree that native speakers write some pretty weird stuff. I thought of mentioning "encountered," but didn't see the need of using the longer word in the example. While it is true that "met," as it is defined,

"Inverted commas" is the normal BrE term. Yes, and "quotation marks" is the normal AmE term. It's another one of those differences we (sort of) laugh at ... a British textbook? (As far as I know, the term "inverted

I have come to the sudden realization that I don't pronounce all"-ire" words alike. Some have (ajr), with the same ... in the(ajr) class are "learned words" in one way or another for me, but "wire"isn't and I

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.