If you are speaking Colloquial, Idiomatic American English you will NEVER say, "Put your money IN where your mouth is." the colloquialism is "Put your money where your mouth is," or "Put up or shut up," "ante up

I don't think so. "Good idea" can often refer to something which just pops into our heads, like an inspiration. "Good thinking!" logically suggests that the cognitive process might have been used. That is, we reason things

And now, for my last humongous post! The Michigan Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) is put out by the University of Michigan English Language Institute (UM-ELI), the oldest and most respectable organization of its

Hope somebody can help me. What means: 'Cause I'm just a girl, little ol' me Don't let me out of your sight' What means 'little ol' me'? Come from germany, so that' why. Thanks for your help. "Little old

Donna Richoux redled: If you must have a parallel to "I could care ... mild sarcasm? (Or, from a missing "like" or "as if.") Donna, are you claiming that there are people who say "I could give a damn" when they

Someone not long ago claimed that we should use 'ask FOR directions' rather than 'ask directions'. What do you think? "Ask for directions" is ordinary proper English. "Ask directions" is a fairly common

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Hi, I'm trying to help a friend with one of her essays in linguistics. She needs to classify a large number (hundreds of thousands) of English words as, for instance, formal, informal, slang, vulgar, curse, colloquialism, abbreviation, etc.

I'm not sure this is actually directly an issue of ... grammatically correct English but never say "please" and "thank you". But would it still be proper English? I think that there is more to speaking a language than just

In the movie "Once Upon A Time In America", there's ... no difference". (On the other hand, I'm no literary genious.) That screenplay could have used a literary genius. Even a mere literary intellect. Heck, the input of a