Question Leaders like JFK and Martin Luther King have made important contributions to the people of the United States. Name another world leader you think is important. Give specific reasons for your choice. An Important Leader From

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to

Sorry, this will probably be a really long post. My mission? To dispell false notions about American English First, we do NOT say "drug" as the past tense of "drag." It's dragged! There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this:

Yes I agree that English is a difficult language to learn and we have many rules and irregular rules at that! And yes, you will find that some Brits do not have 100% perfect formal grammar or spelling. People under 45 may have more problems

OK. Any tiny vestiges of humour left in this will now be killed stone dead. It has been a joke ... century at least) that Americans typically use the 'London, England', 'Paris, France' construction in contexts where it is clearly

i like ur post Well... people (people i know) make up words all the time. destinys child has a song called bootylicous(sp) and i didnt think that was a word,yet i understood it, but then i heard that they(the dictionary ppl i guess) added that to

A spelling tip: words like table and noble have what the Americans call a long vowel (tay, noh). Isn't it diphtongs? Spelling tip number two... Diphthongs has more Hs than you'd expect. Maybe you could visualize some "different

However, Schoenfeld was perfectly well aware, and said in the Section purportedly being summarized, that "-ize" is the spelling preferred ... , but I don't use it (and still less do I use its spelling checker), so I can't confirm

vowel 'ay' in 'bank', 'language', etc. and you may well ... 'ay' is the long form of 'e'. Hope thishelps, Janet We have here a confusion between two different definitions of "longvowels." I and

If I was introducing the subject, if there had been ... the question sounds too abrupt: "What do you mean? When?" Thanks! Now come to this of it. This "Did you ever.." form is probably the one I most frequently hear ... way in