Hi I checked my Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, as well as Merriam-Webster, but found no reference to 'idea' in their definitions of a noun, so I don't know where you got your definition from. You might find it better to think

The following is a line from a documentary film: "The Rockerafella fortune had begun over a hundred years earlier with Nelson's grandfather, John D Rockafella, the founder of the Standard Oil Corporation." I'm confused about the

There was a thread awhile ago about "atomic noir" movies that mixed film noir with themes of atomic anxiety and there was some reference to a movie about some people being held hostage in an abandoned town about to be destroyed by an

Most of the references I find are in connection with a brain lesion malfunction which renders the subject unable to use language. It's called "aphasia." http://www.answers.com/topic/aphasia "Verbing" is a function which is

Hi Coloraday I wasn't completely sure about "liars", but it sounds like the word he was saying, and it seems like a good fit in the context. To me, the final sound seems to be a sort of mix of S and Z -- i.e. not clearly one or the

Hi This is what I hear 1. Might have been a failing of mine to tend to sort of talk down to him ‘cause I’d known him as a younger kid 2. And somewhere, it might be around … it’s in Liverpool somewhere that record, that’s the

i've got to do something or i've got a sore throat... these are examples of bad grammar slipping into american slang. Sorry, Anon, but the expression "have got to do something" (meaning "must do something") is quite

Hi, I never use or read 'on'. Say with / in reference to . . Clive

I would like someone to confirm my thoughts on the following sentence, to see if I am on the right track or am just in fantasy lala land, going off on a tangent: "Because Malcolm had never become a cutthroat CEO, he had few enemies." I

It's a good question. Initially, I thought it was still a comma splice, but now I'll have to consult my reference books or wait for a good reply.