Apon is a Middle English spelling of upon . Many u- prefixes were spelt a- in Middle English. However after spellings were standardised, the a- prefix largely fell out of use. The correct spelling in Modern English is upon . Although, in many

I teach some students Japanese in English. Could you correct that, please? This article explains an honorific expressiono of Japanese. Thanks. Best wishes, Lucas == In Japanese, there are 3 differnt kinds of ways to

It seems to me that reading comprehension skills are very difficult for many English learners. What aspects would you like to emphasise in teaching reading comprehension? Or should it be taught at all? Is it enough if students just read on their

We already often informally use 'k' (kilo) for 1000, and, ... clearly-defined meanings and so there is no risk of confusion. Well, the "informal" use of K for 1000 very neatly

) for 1000, and, conveniently, the symbol for mega- (M) is the same as that used for 'million'. Given

Markus Kuhn wrote on 20 Aug 2004: Have a look at http://www.icnirp.de/documents/broadband.pdf That's a 1.6Mb download. Don't you have an HTML version? as a good example of why capitalising titles of papers ... milli and micro unit prefixes

Markus Kuhn wrote on 20 Aug 2004: Have a look at http://www.icnirp.de/documents/broadband.pdf as a good example of why capitalising titles of papers is a really bad idea. ... to capitalize Greek letters as well (at which point the milli and micro

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with ... come up with another example of a fully conjugable verb that } isn't usable in all of its tenses? "Ought"? How

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be }> accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary

But if it be thought that, either now, or at ... 1790 Note that this was before the metric system existed, Not really. The form the metric system should take had been nearly decided by then, and practical preparations were well advanced. The key