By Plurals, Accents

if the word status is used as its original latin form then it takes the fourth declension ... stati should be incorrect but statuses or status are valid forms ... although I don't mind being corrected ... I think I got this from my teach yourself book some years ago and memories do lapse as one...

I spend a lot of my working day trying to help children achieve a "th" - it's certainly not just second language learners who find it hard! Technically the advice about putting your tongue between your teeth is correct, but in reality it is pretty rare to actually do this in the pace of...

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Rishonly wrote:We are happy that you did it, J4mes_bond25. As a side note, 'completely/totally agree' is better than 'entirely agree'. Are you rather certain of "completely agree" being more acceptable as opposed to "entirely agree", since Huge Grant often fancy "entirely agree" instead &...

Savvy, Let me give you my humble (for a change) feedback on your résumé. Your english is far better than mine so don't take everything I say for granted and trustworthy (but you do already know this, don't you ?). 'In my three years of Biochemistry, my most exciting periods...' : too many 'my'...

This use of the m-dash is somewhat a personal idiosyncrasy, I suppose, but not unprecedented. It serves mostly to replace a colon, and I find that it makes a clearer visual relationship between what precedes and what follows it. I may be wrong, but it is my habit. I would not use it in formal...

Both options are fine here, I think-- and I used plural because, I suppose, I was thinking of all those girls! I like any accents I hear. I buy any posters I see. Those seem to work satisfactorily.

I have no proof of this one way or the other, but I think it's very unlikely that the evolution of "guy" was affected by "goy" -- even though in certain New York accents, they would be pronounced in a similar way. For one thing, the appropriate plural of "goy" is not "goys," but "goyim." Also, I...

I live in the area (groan...) and I'm catching elements of EE. It is so called because it is the prevalent accent around the Thames Estuary, from roughly the Thames barrier down to Southend on Sea. I guess it is a mixture of cockney and general south London accents, with a little bit of the...