(snip discussion of "let alone") Perhaps this lack of clarity accounts for some people hearing it as "little own", and subsequently writing that (see Google). That's a good one. You got me to start updating my list of those

Hi I am going to post my profile in an online dating website! could you please help me to correct any error/mistake in my profile. I would appreciate your help very much in advanced. Thanks. the profile is this: Hi I am looking for someone

In the book the "hero" propounds the Monty Hall Problem, most adequately explained here http://www.faisal.com/docs/monty.html (and elsewhere all over Usenet and the Internet). "Since you were only 1/3 likely to have picked correctly

In the book the "hero" propounds the Monty Hall Problem, most adequately explained here http://www.faisal.com/docs/monty.html (and elsewhere all over Usenet and the Internet). "Since you were only 1/3 likely to have picked correctly

Hi, I've been searching for sites that offer graded dictations to add the "Word Surfing" site.(see link below) Students of all languages would benefit greatly, I'm sure, from the availability of a service that allowed them to ..

I read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the case Flaherty v. Keystone Oaks School District, 247 F. Supp.2d 698 (W.D. Pa. 2003)... The Pittsburgh ACLU represented a "WHITE" plaintiff Jack Flaherty in that case... First they

"Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote on 17 Nov 2003: 80 lines cut; the important ones are repeated below) Let's take that a bit at a time: He's neither a linguist nor a usage commentator, but he cares passionately about

In the newsgroup alt.english.usage , the term "dialect" was recently ... nonstandard usage which is learned by one person from another. As is any so-called standard usage, if you use the above definition. Modern lexicographers look at

In today's paper the following caught my eye: "Edwards, convicted ... have I just failed to notice it in the past? I think you've got a point, but it's not that the word has a new *meaning*. It's not suddenly used ... used. Is

Wait a minute. Let me try. Um... No. Apparently not. I've seen some pictures on the internet that would indicate that it is possible. I see what my mistake was. I was trying it with a large rutabaga. I'm told it works OK with a cucumber as