I've been taking French lessons from the original Pepe Lepiew ... going to try this on my next trip to Paris. Lat time I was in Paris I went into a photography gallery that had a wonderful selection of very expensive ... it gives my

And we do pronounce things in a different way! Like you say ‘caterpillar’ and we say ‘caterpillar.’ And, uh… No, you say ‘a-*loo*-min- um,’ we say ‘a-loo-*min*-yum. You say ‘cen-*tri*-fugal,’ we say ‘centri-*fu*-gal.” You say ‘leisure!’ We say

What you mean "we," paleface? You're piggybacking. Who are -you- talking to, redface? Have you thought about what it takes for a reform to take hold? Have you ever noticed that some new things are mocked and resisted, while others

Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state

"Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote on 17 Nov 2003: 80 lines cut; the important ones are repeated below) Let's take that a bit at a time: He's neither a linguist nor a usage commentator, but he cares passionately about

Been in Philadelphia only four days now, and already spotted ... "cone". Will keep the group updated as I spot more. Say, as long as you are in Penna, maybe you could check these out. (I think the spelling of names ...

Because sometimes phonetic spelling resembles eye dialect. Take the example ... in print, they might very well pronounce it like "onset." Why would this be any less insulting than any other use of phonetic spelling might be. Isn't

The French verb "jaser" means "to gossip back and forth." Is it possible that the word "jazz" came from the French "jaser" as French was spoken in New Orleans in Creole or the Acadian (Cajun) of the early