require >>> working with a linguistic therapist in a language laboratory. Am I >>> write in thinking that even someone ... Where >>> would she look for this kind of tutoring? It doesn't seem to be >>>

I was thinking of the other kind, like the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. We have a shopping centre cum parking garage cum conference centre that was developed partly by the city council and partly by private enterprise. It has the opublic library, and a

Custom as in customer? Do you not speak of customers in the USA? Yes, but we haven't spoken of "custom" in the sense of "business, patronage by customers" in, I'm guessing, an hundred years or more, if we ever actually

An interesting article about Rightpondia in today's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1328663,00.html Comment ... my safety Carol Gould Saturday October 16, 2004 The Guardian Disturbing; but it was news to me. We must

Areff typed thus: This is an English usage point, it's not about religion. This is precisely why Britain is way more Christian than the US. For example, who might be offended by my stating that our Prime Minister's Christian name is

CyberCypher typed thus: david56 wrote on 02 Oct 2004: Areff typed thus: Do you suggest that the people mentioned ... Would it be OK to say it during a Christening? It certainly isn't American English. What's wrong with "given

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

Areff typed thus: I know the US well enough to be able to say that they weren't significantly atypical. My observation is based on two groups of about 50 from the North East - similar numbers to the other nationalities I mentioned - who were

Isn't "The" a matter of preferrence or opinion? If you ask which is The restaurant in NYC you may get ten different answers, all of them, as Mr. Franke put it, unnecessary.