I found this on a website: "Alun Lewis is a poet who wrote the love poem, Goodbye , for his wife, and other sensitive, accessible poems, many about his experience of war and separation." This usage of the indefinite article confuses me.

Hi Heather, I was also taught, as you were, to use 'have' rather than 'got, but my English teacher admitted that 'have got' was acceptable in conversation and colloquial usage. So, if I were writing a formal essay, I would use

William R Ward wrote on 01 Jan 2005: I agree with everything you say here. The rule is bogus only because nobody follows it. You can find it stated quite clearly on The Grammar Doctor's website:

You might not know of such evidence but have you looked for any? It's not my job to prove that no evidence exists. It's the job of those who are claiming that there is a reason that non-traditional families are a Bad Thing to prove it. A

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I don't know what I *say* in actual conversation, but when I *write*, I tend to watch out for this ... as if she was the only person who... But I don't think it matters as much as it used to. Don't you think it *should* matter to

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Wikipedia is now first when I Google 'jew' and Jewwatch second. Doing the search also brings up a featured article ... linguistically, as noted on websites devoted to Jewish topics such as these:

I think you mean obsequious, rather than osequios. Actually I think all these words are pretentious and best forgotten. I'll ... may want to use them is to impress someone. Well it would sure leave an impression on me. Forget them. Hey, he

I have a little disagreement with a friend of mine. He assures me that an archive file created with a ... "zipped"? He says he came across a "zip'ed file" at universities' websites many times. What do you think about