Comments: Concentrate on writing sensible questions. Learn the pattern and construction from the answers given to you and build on it. Don't try to be creative and start your own brand of English. I mean it in a positive way. Ok, for

Remember that case of the sniffles I mentioned? Well, today I feel like a piece of microwaved dog dookie. Friday my darling and I met up in the city to attend the first ever New York Comic Con, she after working all night (such is the life of

here's a quote that says most of it for me, from Intervention: Reviewed by Penny Stone "There's a scene early in Martin Scorcese's The Aviator where Howard Hughes takes Katharine Hepburn for a ride in a small prop plane which

So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I suspect one of the two main Aussie characters on BBC radio (Bill Kerr or Bentley) in the 1950s must have used it. COD10

back Every Saturday morning serial oater had bushwhackers hiding in the canyon. They were the ones in the black hats. Oh, I know about bushwhackers, having grown up on a steady diet of Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy. But I ... am asked to believe

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I thought it

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I suspect

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning of 'bushwhacking' in America and the UK is 'engaging in guerilla warfare, ambush'. To tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that

I don't understand why it should be so, but every English-speaking nation seems to have a different word for walking in the wilderness: hiking, bushwalking, hill-walking, tramping, trekking, etc. It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One

Yes, strange, isn't it? I wondered if it was because, of course with exceptions, it's generally something we do in ... to drive in another country, so there's little pressure to develop a different word for conning a car. According to