B. Labévue wrote on 11 Nov 2004: Hi, I've got a few english questions. I could probably find the answers in a dictionary, but I like the ... usage possibilites. For instance : First, "thank you very much indeed". Does it mean

I'll have to vote with Bob on that one. In ... /sEmaI/, with /sEmi/ as an "also" (significantly less common) variant. I think ('sEmi) might be more prevalent among younger AmE speakers, at least in some regions of the country.

Not that this answers your question, but in the song ... complaints about the ship is that "the skipper's half Dutch." That must be twice as bad as an all-Dutch captain. The Dutch, with a few exceptions, aren't half as bad as

What's perverse about being a Dutch sea captain? The Dutch didn't discriminate, and went by ability, Not that this answers your question, but in the song "Waiting For the Day (The Wost Old Ship)," one of the many complaints about

(snip) Yes, you're right - you touched on one of my hobby-horses and I rode off on it. And you're also right in saying that it *does change your perception of someone when you hear them speaking your language, and it's also true that

It's new and different. I'm not in the habit of ... warm, human, and genuine. (Yeah, that might be an illusion.) I find the idea of an English-speaking media becoming more and more encouraged to only quote people who can speak ... has to

the speaking bites And this is a Good Thing is it? It's new and different. I'm not in the habit of labeling everything I notice as being a Good Thing or ... or something), I'm sure they would have come across as very different people.

I'm not sure of any other context where this literary device is used: present perfect to denote a finished event in the past (the textbook context for use of past simple), but perhaps someone can put me right? It's common in Australian

Interesting point, I don't know, I tend to keep the radio tuned to Radio Scotland, which of course is a national station. The impression I got was that Radio Scotland was a local station, Ouch. Radio Scotland is a network in its own right.

Same boss who confused the pig and the chicken felt that "walk the walk" referred to greater "buy-in" and he ... to other people than it is to me?...because I can't see how they derive that meaning from the given words..r A