I'm talking about small-scale inhomogeneities in a medium. Is it correct to hyphen small-scale? What are the rules for hyphenation in these cases? If they're too complex, can anybody point out a webpage with this information? Thanks, Fernando

Donna Richoux redled: If you must have a parallel to "I could care ... mild sarcasm? (Or, from a missing "like" or "as if.") Donna, are you claiming that there are people who say "I could give a damn" when they

Anyway, as I have posted here before, very recently, whenever ... in America", it's usually very simple to prove them wrong. I don't think that US speakers would ever say "noone". Well, when talking about Mickey Noone, they

Somehow I miss the logic in this. If they are non-rhotic then of course the postvowelic R is a vowel, what else? But many of your readers *are* rhotic and interpret -er or -ar or -or to mean something quite different. Yes, that's what I meant.

Ross Howard wrote on 24 Jun 2004: Christian S.-W. wrote on 24 Jun 2004: It means that ... Meat seems to make a meal decent for most people. Franke, isn't there a bit of tense weirdness going on, if the sequence of events was as you say (which

... }> "Son, I could care less how your mother taught you to make your bed in the }> morning. In this platoon we do it my way. If you survive this training }> and I ever see you in the NCO club, we can have a chat about what our

... } As for "could care less", from my experience I reject the } idea that it expresses some sort of irony. The times I've } heard it, it has been said with exactly the intonation } that's used for saying the correct

Does Lynne Truss understand what an attributive noun is? Matt OK. Help. I've yet to see a copy of the Truss book. Just how is the title presented? Like this: ... Leaves"? I've seen it both ways, both here and in articles talking about

OK. Help. I've yet to see a copy of the ... and in articles talking about it. It's dwiving me cwazy. The cover on Amazon shows Eats, Shoots & Leaves . With a panda whiting out the comma. (Or "pinking out" on the British

OK. Help. I've yet to see a copy of the Truss book. Just how is the title presented? Like this: ... Shoots & Leaves"? I've seen it both ways, both here and in articles talking about it. It's dwiving me cwazy. The cover on