Hey guys, Here's a list of commonly mispronounced words in English. Very interesting and useful, in my opinion. Enjoy! Feel free to post any other ones that you've come across. A No: acrossed | Yes: across It is easy to confuse "across" with

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

On Wednesday, in article It's usually at this point that I remind everyone of the dictum of the linguist Max Weinreich: "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." And wonder why he didn't mention the air force :-) 1) When

Ouch! I always thought that's what "on the breadline" meant ... having it. I never even thought of a queue before. That's certainly what "on the breadline" means to me. "In the breadline", however, would

My suggestion to you, Arfy, is to use phonetic ... all sorts of diacritic marks distinguishing allophones of various consonants. The concept of "allophones" belongs to phonemics, not phonetics. An allophone is any of various phonetic

Sorry, that argument won't work. You said "But of course, AmE is also notorious for its use of illogical double ... double negations" of which you speak must be instances of negative concord, and calling negative concord illogical is

Is it true that the word gotten was originally part ... when did it disappear (I'm assuming it is now verboten)? The last UK use of it cited in OED dates from 1894. However, I'm not at all sure that it ... uneducated) people. I certainly

On 13 Dec 2004, Larry G wrote There's the problem "previously" to what date? As Donna has gone to great lengths to show, the word was ... is in common use in the late 20th century. To what period are you applying

The following quote from that NYT article contains a major error: Dr. Cohen, a good friend of mine ... German vulgarism meaning a crooked lawyer," because the German noun "Scheisser" (lit., 'shitter') does *not* mean

According to the Potsy Thesis (is it "Potsy" or "Potsie"?), ... after) it had been popularized by Happy Days . There's a 'word history' in AHD that cites the word in 1970, with about the meaning it has now, from ...