Hello, I wrote down all of the notes I had for you on my whiteboard, and because I need to clear up room I'm just going to post what I have written down instead of erasing it and wasting it. Practically every problem in your paper fits into

Soccer, cricket, squash - which of these sports do you prefer? The use of "sports" is correct in your post above, because sport is a singular noun. If one needs to refer to two or more of them collectively, the plural form

Hi, I've got a few english questions. I could probably find the answers in a dictionary, try Swan - Practical English Usage but I like the interactivity of this newsgroup. I'm not really sure how to use "indeed". It seems that

Hi, I've got a few english questions. I could probably find the answers in a dictionary, but I like the interactivity of this newsgroup. I'm not really sure how to use "indeed". It seems that there are several unrelated usage

My German/Swedish grandfather used to utter a phrase like "jiminetty", and my mother-in-law from St. Louis says something like "jiminetly". Both words can be found with Google, but there's nothing about how they came about.

In our last episode, , the lovely and talented (Email Removed) broadcast on alt.usage.english: What does throw a boxing match mean? To lose deliberately. Can we say throw a cricket match ? Surely not cricket! But yes, we could say it if such a

I have begun listineing to cricket commentators using the phrase "alluded to" (generally as a synonym for "noted" or "observed" or "said"). Passing over the usage question here, is it normal to collocate