Well, it depends. Suppose there are two universities in my city. One has a very high reputation, the best teachers, the hardest classes, and is very famous. The other does not have a very good reputation. Someone asks me "Which university did

Christanford wrote: I'm gonna have my university interview, so do you think I should that the whole "like" thing out of my system? Also, how often do British people, Canadians and Americans say "like"? Is it universal? For a university

How is the generic Canadian(like from Vancouver, Toronto..) accent different from the generic US accent? I think the way Hayden Christensen speaks is very rythmic, could anyone comment on his accent so that I could try and learn that? Does it bug

>for example Irish people, who are counted as a minority in the UK but look just like British people. Yep! We Irish are generally an audible minority - we distinguish ourselves by our accents. Yes, invisible minorities tend to be

As we're talking 'Linguistic Imperialism', I thought this might be relevant to the discussion... It's an excerpt from something I wrote a few years ago regarding the British Council and its role in ELT... “A knowledge of English gives rise in

Hi Yunus, Clive, mustn't it be go in for?. Sally has gone in for the beauty competition. like that? No, this is a different expression, relating to embarking on/entering a field of activity or study. eg When I start University, I think

Hello Krish (1) Princess Anne is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth and a noted equestrian performer. Last year, the 37-year-old daughter of the Queen and her horse finished fourth in the National Hunt at Hereford. Please compare it with "Princess

Hello guys I have a question about 'forget' and I would like to ask it on this occasion. I've learned in school about 'forget' that we can say 'I forgot my umbrella' in the meaning of 'I inadvertently left my umbrella' but we cannot add a

Donna Richoux typed thus: Some of it could be physiological though. I once knew ... This was an educated person who read quite a lot. Only one? Many of us have encountered the pen/pin merger. When I was in school in California, and particularly my

Some of it could be physiological though. I once knew a person who could not distinguish between the words pen and pin. This was an educated person who read quite a lot. Only one? Many of us have encountered the pen/pin merger. When I was in