Only one "p" but note that British and American spelling differ. Apologize (American spelling) is a verb. Apology is a noun. Apologies is a plural noun. I would like to apologize for the trouble I caused. Your apology is accepted.

Hi loonloka, A sentence isn't true or false, it's either correct or incorrect. Sometimes it can be correct, but not very natural. 1. Gregg’s leaving his clothes around the house made his mother angry. Okay 2. LaTasha

In Australia I would say "uncle in law" or "uncle-in-law". This also applies to aunts but I've never heard it used to refer to any other relationship such as nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. Logically though, you could say

English has no official regulation, just general rules of thumb. There's no definitive authority on any rule in English, which means that there are exceptions to everything. Taking an example from spelling: most native English speakers are

It seems that "headed" rather than heading has now entered the mainstream of English as it is used in the UK, possibly because of the use of American English spelling and grammar checkers. Until recently in the UK we used only the

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers : "Do not use an apostrophe to form the plural of an abbreviation or a number" and the examples include acronyms such as PhDs and VCRs. The Chicago Manual of Style : "So far as it can

At 02:47:08 on Mon, 2 Jan 2006, (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): A friend of mine is writing a physics article. She has been examining a series of (physical) systems, and found ... the following two sentences is correct: The systems show

Reading this http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005173.html I see 'Kudoes to the New York Times...' I assume that the writer pronounces the word 'kudos' with a long final vowel, and Anglicised the spelling to match the

Does anyone happen to know how the abbreviation "chix" for "chicken" happened to originate? It could be pronounced the same as the word "chicks," but that might just be a coincidence. Of course it's no

I'm not a native speaker, can anyone tell me the differences between penny, pees, pences ?? "Penny" is singular, "pee" or "pees" is horrid (see below), "pences" is the equivalent of referring to