Most serious non-fiction writers seem to prefer "is not", "cannot", etc. to "isn't" and "can't". On the other hand, some ... to read? Is there any difference between what is common in the UK and what

@reader1.panix.com: There is "talk" about my doing an adaptation from a ... do I just say, "I dunno, ask the director"? M Well you certainly don't want to write what should be accent speech as "standard English"

^^ There are many sites which explain usenet abbreviations. We talk a different dialect of English here. I think Molly has a fair point here. After all our newcomer wants to learn English 'as she is spoke' ... enough already when you are a

Am Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:29:54 +00 schrieb Dave Fawthrop: ^^ Is this standard English? Can you please describe this construction to me (non-native speaker)? No, it's an error. He should have written "of accessing Usenet". He should

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As for the history of the vowel of "cloth", I think what happened Thanks. That's why God gave us Interlibrary Loan and on-line bookstores. I think there were two main influences on this "aw"ing of "o", and similar

J. W. Love: Adrian Bailey: What does this have to with "accuracy"? Jerry Friedman: The official transcript had the comma, so people quoting the speech should have included the comma. The "official transcript" either reports

written It would be nice to have other words: I ... have no poetry: no doubt why they're in sci.lang. Mike. I do not think Evan was concerned with the 'quantities' we were plagued with at scool, but frankly I do ... to recognise that

I do not think Evan was concerned with the 'quantities' we were plagued with at scool, but frankly I do not understand since recorded speech supplies a pretty true example of how the sounds come out how anybody can fail to recognise that

On 28 Jan 2005 20:09:37 -0800, R H Draney Bob Cunningham filted: When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us ... the vowels in "peck", "pick", "pock", and "rut" were short. That's