John Anderson is the leader of the National Party (recently rebranded as "The Nationals"), junior partner in Australia's ruling Coalition government. As such, he enjoys the title of Deputy Prime Minister, although few Australians

The URL as reported in another thread started by someone claiming to be the aue webmaster is: http://alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/ The ... along the lines of "My name is Robert Elwood Cunningham. People call me Bob." And then

History lesson: this showed up with various famous Arizonans (Bil Keane, Glen Campbell, Van Patten) smiling and uttering the ... his way onto one such ad, turning into an implied exhortation to follow his lead in other, more political areas..r

I've seen the word "ala" used a number of times to mean "in the manner of" or "like", but I ... somebody please enlighten me to its origin, actual meaning and if it needs to be italicized when used in English.

the combination of slight mistakes and grandiose turns of phrase, like the 'my dear friends' bit leaves a bad taste. i don't know if she's a native speaker or not, it's hard to tell, you should hear some of us over in England- wouldn't understand

Thus spake Evan Kirshenbaum: Oy! He was one of the first celeb victims of what was then the '80s still called "the gay plague" (AIDS and/or hepatitis; I can't remember exactly and I'm too lazy to look it up). Admittedly, he

... A resounding YES. Well, I'll take that back. The Brits aren't wrong to pronounce "jaguar" with three syllables, but the ... Jag (and I can't) I'd buy it from the 2-syllable guy and tell Mr. Three why he lost the

There seems to be some confusion here. As a native English speaker (I was born and educated in England) and having been a teacher of English for many years, I can say that there is no doubt in my mind that the quoted words were written by a native

Yo Joey, you don't use the same vowel in "song" ... "thong" is "cot". (Just *why* that's so is unclear, BTWWSYATGS.) Well, Fontana, let's see if I've learned anything since coming to the AUE. If

By the way, why doesn't /tSArlz/ work for non-rhotic accents? Non-rhotic speakers realize /r/ before a consonant as (:) or () or something, right? That's a point of some debate among phonologists, actually - whether the /r/ is underlyingly