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Why you is written as you when it can simply be written as u? Likewise, why are is written as are when it can be written as r? These words are written out in full rather than as abbreviations to show that the writer is not common, vulgar, and lazy, that the writer is willing to follow, in a...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

Cuckoosnest wrote:IMHO, dis iz a sine of da destruction of our written language, but im obviously biased on da issue. so wat do u think? iz dis sumthin we shud b ashamed of, or has ben franklins dream of a simpler english language finally cum of age? This one did make me laugh my head off. I...

Anonymous wrote:yo guys! i've read all your comments...and i gotta say i've lost any hope to learn english...reading or hearing how others talk kinda depresses me cos i realize that i'm very bad at it, that i can't speak at all. nobody can understand me, some people make fun of me when i speak-...

Wwwdotcom wrote:Your question answers my view of this. You used "WHICH", you did not use "THAT". Why? Because you don't know. So, let's look at each question and see how frequently they are used instead of RIGHT vs. WRONG.GROUP A1. I don't use this, but I have seen it. So, I would mark it...

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN; Could you please tell me what the highest degree an MD can earn is, or is there no limit? I would like to know the abbreviations for the highest MD degree -- if it exists (esp. in the USA). There is a man telling me I'm "wrong" again !!! So your help is...

Hi... Abbey is right. We need some context. Where and how are you using these abbreviations? Personally, I think they might actually mean Auto-immune Polyendocrine Syndrome, a type of auto-immune disease. (Frankly, this is one reason I prefer people with health care AND ESL/EFL...