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CalifJim wrote:For example, all of the following are wrong: Did everyone understand any questions? Did you give both of them any help? Are all of the employees expecting to take any vacation time during the coming week?Aaaargh! This thread literally made me swear, lol. Darn some and any,...

Emeritus Professor John C. Wells in his daily phonetic blog on Firday 20 October 2006: Unusual pronunciations observed recently in the mouths of native speakers of English: from a CNN newsreader, to obey someone sl/æ/vishly. Since the point being made was the possible offensiveness of this...