Variant(s): also a la /"ä-(")lä, "ä-l&, "a-l&/ Function: preposition Etymology: French à la ... What are the diaereses supposed to stand for? \ä\ as o in bother and cot and, with most American speakers, as a in father

Variant(s): also a la /"ä-(")lä, "ä-l&, "a-l&/ Function: preposition Etymology: French à la... What are the diaereses supposed to stand for?

"Hu" is convenient at least because it saves you 7 key strokes as compared with "he or she," and 12 (!) strokes in "huself" as compared with "himself or herself." That argument leaving out copula,

There's NOTHING "wrong" about using prepositions at the end of sentences anymore. There never was. That was just one of those rules proposed by someone who wanted to make English slavishly imitate Latin. Nobody has ever followed it.

Likewise, I would say: I can't take you off my mind, or I got his picture off the Internet. I would say these could be confused with "of" preposition. I would also say they are part of the verb, not prepositions. Off in the above example already

The inimitable "Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack )" (Email Removed) stated one day What's wrong with 'log off of'? There's nothing wrong with "logoff of", but "log off

"Please log off of Windows and then restart OE." This ... worm or a virus. I thought MS had some "standards"? This is, unfortunately, a standard for some. "off of" is a fixed prepositional phrase for many

... } (1) I don't like that "whom" plus a clause-ending separated } preposition. "Whom did you give it to?" is not grammatically wrong, } though, just weird outside a formal setting. "To whom did you give } it?"

The inimitable (Email Removed) (Richard R. Hershberger) stated one day Ah, Skitt, you are taking this one too seriously. It's ... and neither of us will win or lose the point. My 2 cents is that, while I agree with much of what you say, the

Let me give you some examples: 1. The President presented the award to him. *To whom did the President present the award? *He is the person to whom the President presented the award. (Formal) (Note also you use 'whom' with a