As a teacher, I understand that some students find highly detailed definitions and analysis very helpful as learning tools, and I think that's great. However, I also encounter some people who become more focussed on definitions and analysis

David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

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It grieves me to see and hear native anglophones insist that their linguistic solecisms can become standard usage after a ... speaks and writes the international language. Just because it isn't a native anglophone dialect doesn't

like this even for those areas literally a 1000 km away, a distance that puts the inundation, I think

Richard Maurer wrote on 19 Dec 2004: Any phrase whose meaning can't be determined from the meaning of each word in it is idiomatic. Not a clear explanation of what 'idiomatic' might mean. This would be better stated as "Any phrase

Exactly, Carmen. Wearing togas and introducing 'who' as a pronoun ... taught that nouns, pronouns and verbs should match in number. One could argue that it does. "They" takes "are", just as "you" does (and

From "New English Fourth, GCSE Edition" (1987) by Rhodri Jones, publishedby Heinemann (London) Being able to express yourself accurately is important. Here are some more solecisms for you to study and avoid. 5. Off/of. 'Of' is

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented Areff broadcast on alt.usage.english: Okay, here is the way the article really works with institutional nouns (when the noun is institution in a particular dialect): The article

We'd manage perfectly well without it, as long as we ... possible for too many expressions to change meaning too quickly. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , by Robert A. Heinlein, is written in a dialect of English he imagines to be spoken on the