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The response from the United States of America to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Message from Her Majesty the Queen. • Let us start with your header, the use of Majesty. Here is how it is derived: After the fall of Rome, Majesty was used to describe a Monarch of the very highest rank -...

This is really badly off topic but I couldn't resist the temptation to comment on your correct observation. I understand very well that native speakers of English mispronounce foreign words because foreign languages are not studied much in English-speaking countries. Well, can you really blame...

J Lewis wrote: As I said before, we English-speakers do equally bad things, and worse, in our pronunciation of foreign words. The tendency is to pick on a particular transformation and apply it everywhere, just to show that we know "things are not as they seem" at first sight, without...

I'd say 'to' fits quite well. As for bottling...I've only heard 'bottle off' in this kind of connection: 1. The band played abysmally, and were bottled off the stage. i.e. they were forced to retreat in a hail of beer bottles. Related verbs are 'bottle out', 'to have lost one's...