They are similar but different. Festival comes from 'to feast' and is usually centered in a specific location and is merrymaking where eating is the main event. Carnival comes from the Greek (and later Latin) root 'carne'

They are similar but different. Festival comes from 'to feast' and is usually centered in a specific location and is merrymaking where eating is the main event. Carnival comes from the Greek (and later Latin) root 'carne'

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The chemical elements are there in a same group of periodic table for a reason. The reason is they are similar in many respects. Every language needs a vocabulary, grammar, construction (which I think is

I'm reading a light novel set in London during the WWII blitz. The main characters are two petty organized crime ring leaders. They use phrases such as "that will learn them" quite fequently when they describe their techniques of

I've heard many people saying "that will learn them" when they are speaking in the African American Vernacular English dialect.

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

I've a little confusion in one of the dialogue of the movie 'Dark knight' in which joker said: Side note: In this case, it is not natural in American dialect English to use the contraction. We would say: I am a little

The version of English I'm used to does not permit this. I'm from California. I think that in our dialect, the only time you can make a contraction using "have" is when "have" is used as a helping verb. For example,

It's: You are I are going to town. (correct) In informal English, in most dialects, especially in spoken English, you can also say: Me and you are going to town. You and me are going to town doesn't seem to be common compared to the

Do you another thing that makes one sound dumb? .. Ignorance. If you, or anyone else that thought the southern accent marked a lack of intelligence, actually knew how the dialect evolved, you would find that it (in its many forms) drew most (if