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I am a Chinese graduate student. The following is part of my master's thesis. Who can help me polish my language. Thank you very much. William Somerset Maugham (1874 1965), born in Paris, is one of the most popular writers in British

COLUMN ONE Don't give him rewrite Clive Cussler had wide discretion over the script for his novel "Sahara." Now, after many costly revisions, he's suing over what did hit the screen. By Glenn F. Bunting, Times Staff Writer

Dumbing Up By RACHEL DONADIO Few thirsts run deeper these days than the one for self-improvement, and few recent books have slaked it better than the ubiquitous bumble-bee-colored titles in the "For Dummies" series. Since it began in

One should not insist that the etymology of an idiom ... the etymology of words and phrases that are not idioms. I try to be precise or accurate in my use of words: I wrote "might have happened". This is what you have not demonstrated.

Someone in this group may already have asked the question below, but I've been wondering. I was nosing around in one of the topics here (on teaching in Italy) and noticed a teacher complaining that he had to learn formal grammar in order to

(Email Removed) schreef in bericht There are a number of expressions in English with the ... expressions. We - the Dutch- are nice people, aren't we..? There is a whole book(let) deveoted to the use of 'Dutch' in expressions.

I wonder whether 'cilantro' saw much use throughout the US before Mexican or Mexican-influenced food became nationally popular (which didn't occur till after Tet, despite what you Southwestern people might think). You're probably

< Maddening how the Web is full of people repeating each other's (purported) quotes, and none of them saying which piece of writing it came from. Let's see, Max Lerner born 1902, Minsk, Russia, died 1992, New York, N.Y. ...  original

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