On 4 Dec 2004 06:10:46 GMT, CyberCypher 6:19 PM EST (2319 GMT) MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) A statewide recount showed that Alabama narrowly voted to keep language ... and never will be part of the America that I used to love and respect. Land of the

What does the expression "Get some stones, dorktoasts" mean in the context of the following comments on the "Rate My Professor" website? (I like it and wonder if it will be useful for bandying about over the meal table.)

It's never used the other way round (flout mistakenly used for flaunt), though, is it? If it is, I've never come across it. I'm wondering why not. I had the good fortune of learning the word "flout" from the caution about not

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Django Cat wrote on 30 Oct 2004: Respect to the original poster, it's Friday night, nice glass of red and I've had a heavy week.. My day ... know is what *you* would tell the student? He's sitting in front of you *right now*, and wants

U W V what? Q R S T U W V But now the song turns darker as the Schoolmaster is threatening to whip naughty children; perhaps the last was a mistake of that child. Well, the next line is "Oh dear me! I cannot say my A B C." Page 3 has

But the original "alphabet song", as I mentioned upthread, appeared in the U.S. in 1834 (published in Boston by C. ... later. But we have a 'Z' rhyming with a 'see'. I was able to get the digital image as below. Ah, nice

(Cross-posted to sci.lang) Not an Oy!, exactly, but "perform very well those services" ... able to supply an explanation. I can't. Can anyone else? It seems to me such an inviolable rule in English that you can't put an adverb

"Will you enjoy baseball tomorrow?" as a general enquiry aboutwhat ... "Are you going to the baseball tomorrow?" would be right. Eh? That sentence might possibly work with football in somedialects, I don't know, but

I've noticed this too. Yes. But maybe it's simpler isn't it just "own it rather than merely rent it"? This sounds plausible, too. There is just something about Disney exhorting me to "own" it's latest DVD that