what's the frequenc y that people use ain't, and you, yes you , who is answering me, do you use ain't. 1. I don't use ain't . 2. My father never used ain't . 3. My mother never used ain't . 4. None of my friends in high

Perhaps to a certain extent, but accent is much more a pointer to geographic region. Very well educated (upper class) people will usually speak standard (or 'Oxford' English), but some people are proud of their origins and will keep the

BBC NEWS Spoof band Spinal Tap have announced a "world tour" consisting of a single June date at London's Wembley Arena. I'm proud to say that my high school yearbook picture has me sporting a Spinal Tap t-shirt. One of my

http://tinyurl.com/bhhvj5 A seventeen-year-old boy dresses in drag to attempt to take a test for a girl. He gets caught and charged with a felony.  A felony?! Yes.  Since he was no longer a student at that school, he was on the premises

I didn't mean a probability register or a "degree of alert" register. I meant "social register" -- the difference between "domicile" and "house", between "commodious" and "roomy",

Bygvir Melkerson schrieb: That's one example - for example, it often correspondes to the German past subjunctive (Konjunktiv II), which may not necessarily have anything to do with conditionality, and it is also used in indirect speech without

You learn something very day, they say, and I just learned that the Beatled lifted the lyrics for one of ... Comedy of Patient Grissell. OBSC. Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press. I did

There's a nifty little book for people like you: English in Medicine , Second Edition, Eric H. Glendinning and Beverly A.S. Holmstr=F6m, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59570-3. There's also a tape that goes along with the book. The

R H Draney infrared: I have a videotape of the Beatles appearing on an ... to understand one another, and there were no translators evident.. I have several colleagues from various parts of South America, so it's not unusual to hear a

Hello. A few years ago,I learned that intransitive verbs can't be used in passive patterns. But in university, studying English grammar, I learned that there are some exceptions. Could you answer me what are those " exceptions"? And