A bad influence on whom and why? Children? This is not meant to be a kids show. I watch it mostly for the entertainment value, to be honest. I find myself laughing at little things- stuff that may not seem funny to others. This usually happens

American: teetotaler British: teetotaller CB

Could you give me a link to that article? I had no special article in mind. Everyone familiar with western currency flows knows that. Here is an American article about it. " In the last five years, China has spent as much as one-seventh of

"I am sure that Americans can never forget the effects that Hurricane Katrina had on them. Tens of thousands of people became homeless and my uncle, who lived in America at the time, lost his son because of it. Like thousands of Americans, I

Hello, Can anyone explain what this sentence means? Especially the word strain. In what sense is it used here? and "it" in "straining it..." refers to what? But even with training programs by American lawyers and

I don't pretend to be able to predict what lies in store for the world but the future looks rather bleak to me. Mankind seems to be heading for bigger problems. More and more people are hungry as this New York Times article shows. There are

This structure (the + singular countable noun) can be used to generalize but is mainly used with animals, plants, things and even certain groups of people. 1. The computer has changed the way we do business. 2. The mountain lion is a

Hi Clive So it's not possible to say why the writer mentions this whole population here? It's a longer passage. But I don't think it will make it clearer: After 6,000 years of conquest and colonisation, the

What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

Hi I would like to know if there are any differences between the allophones of British (RP) /t/ and American (GA) /t/ specifically at the end of words such as 'ba t ', 'ca t ' , or 'hesitan t ' and 'restauran t '.