( . . . ) I read a fair number of newsgroups, and I see post, posting, article, message, and even letter in fairly frequent use. I expect that many people just follow what their software calls them; Agent and Google both use "message".

Paulo V.: They presented four phrases Sentences. and asked me which one was correct: (flag#1 = red/white/blue; flag#2 = green/yellow) 1. The two flags were red, white ... white, and blue and green and yellow. 4. The two flags were red, white, and

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Some anthropologists now speculate that man's enormous brain evolved after ... development of language? Isn't that what most people believe today? But language is not the only capability of a large brain. I have no idea as to whether

.. Some anthropologists now speculate that man's enormous brain evolved after he invented tools that allowed him to better hunt... But language is not the only capability of a large brain. I have no idea as to whether visualization requires

But language is not the only capability of a large brain. I have no idea as to whether visualization requires ... if the analogy of computer space has any relevance, graphics requires much more data space than ideas in linguistic form. I recently

Some anthropologists now speculate that man's enormous brain evolved after ... development of language? Isn't that what most people believe today? But language is not the only capability of a large brain. I have no idea as to whether

Some anthropologists now speculate that man's enormous brain evolved after he invented tools that allowed him to better hunt, thus ... he needs to simply get by is because of the development of language? Isn't that what most people believe

Yes, I think that is an example. I've often heard it pronounced (pUndZab), though, presumably due to analogy with the usual sounds of in loanwords. It's also spelt , of course. Cf. Pandit/pundit? David

I think different people perceive these vowels in different ways.My ... approximation thanthat traditionally transcribed as (A:) for most BrE speakers. On the other hand, keep in mind that many languages also have a back(A) as their primary