The most comprehensive dictionary for English is the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the oldest continuously published dictionary of the language. The printed unabridged edition is about 20 large volumes, covering more than 500,000 words. It is

... under the entry "AUXILIARIES, AUXILIARY VERBS," in his *Columbia Guide to Standard American English," Kenneth G. Wilson includes "be" in ... verbs at all, since they behave differently from verbs: most of them have no

I don't follow. Are you implying that "of England" is ... a prepositional phrase rather than a form of a noun. Kirsh, isn't, at some point, the distinction between the two an arbitrary one? Why not consider "of

As the father of Case Grammar, he had to be a Case Grammarian. He didn't have to be, He's said that he didn't intend his work on case as an alternative to other syntactic theories. Yeah. I think it's fair to say that Fillmore

Consistent, and easily understood rules are more important than phonetic spelling. With the exception of the tiny number of words that are spelled differently in the US and the UK, the ... both. Which is where we are now. Either you let spelling

My point was simply the difficulty of how to arrive ... standardized spelling that is not phonetic (1) for many people. Consistent, and easily understood rules are more important than phonetic spelling. With the exception of the tiny number of

In everyday speech in Jewish schools and study halls in ... ones like it, is often used in other contexts also.(1)) This is a Yiddishism. Yiddish vocabulary has a large Hebrew component, and the way Yiddish accommodates Hebrew verbs into its ...