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A Little Help with Capitals This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there. Use capital letters in...

Anon, first of all, please never post in all capital letters. It's hard to read and feels like you're shouting at us. Secondly, I hope this doesn't sound "mean," but you are heavy with buzzwords, to the point where it almost reads like a joke. Don't use an abbreviation in your title. Wait until...

Why you is written as you when it can simply be written as u? Likewise, why are is written as are when it can be written as r? These words are written out in full rather than as abbreviations to show that the writer is not common, vulgar, and lazy, that the writer is willing to follow, in a...

Hello Western American, @ There aren't too many people on the boards that can communicate using German/Swedish.sorry, it was only meant as a joke, of course I want to practise my English and I was very pleased when I found this forum Does anyone knows another expression with the same meaning...

1) How long is a piece of string? Exactly 27.82cm. Anything other this is either shorter or longer than it should be. 2) Who Said an Orange should be called an Orange , and not a Window? First, windows weren't invented back then. Second, it was almost called a Green because long ago, at the...

Actually, the rule is pretty simple: it depends on the *initial sound* of the following word. If the sound is consonant, we use "a". If it is a vowel sound, we use "an". an MP (pronounced "an em pee") = in Britain, a Member of Parliament See? "A" Member (consonant sound) of Parliament. What...