Question: what's the meaning of cologne? Hello. In this context it means scent/smell/stench/etc. The sentence can also be written: "Even from the street, I could pick up the six-month-old scent of charred wood and grinding damp where

Hi Taka, glad to hear from you on this. The way you had framed the question was leading to two possibly opposite interpretations by the "native ear." At least that was my impression. The issue you now raise is quite different from what

1.I knew all human beings breathed. 2.I knew all human beings breath e . 3.I thought all human beings breathed. 4.I thought all human beings breath e . Of the four, I think no. 4 is not OK. I think the word "thought" is almost always

Hi, "The reaction was of amazement" not seeming completely grammatical, would the following sentences be better with 'one' before 'of' by analogy? The tone of the reviewers was of surprise and awe. Here, I prefer

So, in other words... they're both at the top? No, it's just CGI. But seriously, isn't it obvious? I got your gist from the context just seemed like an odd analogy. We used to always say "the scum floats to the top" which I

Or so one historian *claims.* I'm willing to bet your source had an anti-Catholic axe to grind. Wow you leap to this quickly. It's a really strong Catholic position these days, it seems: any criticism must be the result of

I have been working on a screenplay for just over a year I did the bulk of the writing in the past four months or so and I was just about to start sending query letters to agents and a handful of producers. Then, while browsing film-related stuff

'stimying', 'stymieing', 'stymying' == For the 'ing' form of the verb 'to stymie', OED2 gives only 'stimying', used in a golfing context in 1857. An example where the regular rules of formation break

'stimying', 'stymieing', 'stymying' == For the 'ing' form of the verb 'to stymie', OED2 gives only 'stimying', used in a golfing context in 1857. An example where the regular rules of formation break

Gary Williams wrote on 23 Aug 2004: It requires an inference that could have been avoided by ... longer have an uninfringeable right to keep and bear arms. (Assuming that was their intent), the first rewrite would have been an improvement, in that