Well, reading your comments, my own, and looking it up in a dictionary, there seem to be two major uses for by . 1) The first and most frequent use is that it specifies the means or manner in which something is accomplished. When you say the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) " My two cents " and its longer version " put my two cents in " is an American idiomatic expression, taken from the original British idiom expression: to put in " my two

Hi, Then how would you interpret this 'drawings for children', Clive? The more narrowly a theory is defined by and agrees with experimental or observational facts, the more secure its status. It's rather as in those

No bullpen is from "America's favorite past time" Baseball.  Here he is using the reference because most Americans reading the story will understand the simile or analogy.  Apparently he expects her to be in the position only a short

Nell: Used 162 times in the Bible (KJV aka AV), both ... call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." You're wrong; you're confusing "whosoever" with "whosever". "Whosoever", however, adds another

Where do you find the bit about "his supporters," please? I was conjecturing. The thing seems to be widely 'known' so it would be interesting to know who started the ... later Huxleys said it and people got them mixed up? There

(I'm headed out for the evening, but I can tell ... the thing about "six eternal monkeys" or "six eternal apes.") So I now gather from Googling. It seems to be something put forward by his supporters as the kind of argument

When I looked at the Monkey Shakespeare Simulator the other day, I remembered how we traced the story/image back to ... (2) A. S. Eddington. The Nature of the Physical World: The Gifford Lectures, 1927. New York: Macmillan, 1929, page 72.

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He's being stunod again, Lee. Think of it like this: ... you've got personal drama that you deal with by yourself. For God's sake, DE. To "go it alone" does not mean to do something without other people being present. Like