The French analogy above is irrelevant; Latin is very exact in these matters and would use either vitae or vitarum depending on the number of lives in question.

I got everything you said except for the last one: And you kiss your mother with that mouth? Please shed more light on the above one. Perhaps it's not quite appropriate, but it did come to mind. It's probably better used when

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) " My two cents " and its longer version " put my two cents in " is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two

I think here the verb 'scope' fits better since it implies 'opportunity'. Martha said her current job does not provide her with enough scope for her organising ability. In other words, the job doesn't provide her

Hi, The at construction is rather more vivid and tends to conjure up a stronger image (and some language purists prefer it as being closer to the usage in physical senses) while the to construction follows the analogy of more abstract verbs such

In English usage, at least, we have the option to insert a comma before the 'and' in a list without the 'etc.'. As in 'apples, pears, and plums'. This is called the "Oxford comma". Usually it is only inserted to

(a) Joshua and Mathew are good brothers. They are sailors. They work on a passenger ship. -- All grammatically correct, but "good brothers" seems a slightly odd phrase. I'm guessing you're forming it by analogy with "good

American Heritage has this to say about this ongoing triviality: Writers who use hopefully as a sentence adverb, as in Hopefully the measures will be adopted, should be aware that the usage is unacceptable to many critics, including a

I don't see where we disagree: tracks, channels, signals - they all carry the same data. I think you're just confusing tracks made at the recording session with tracks made at the editing/mixing session (post production). I'll grant

I never use alright. I used to consider it incorrect for a long time. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary more or less agrees with me: — Usage. The form ALRIGHT as a one-word spelling of the phrase ALL RIGHT in all of its senses