hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this, as I'm a native speaker of English, however, I'm really not sure where to look regarding this question. I'm from Australia, and I speak with the General Australian accent, with

Jim, I hadn't thought of that, but I think I have never noticed it. I definitely pronounce words like "mountain" or "sentence" with a glottal stop in the combination "TN" and I don't include a schwa in

Its easy to read a newspaper but we've to keep in mind all those new words. Two years ago, when i was at school, I was looking for them in the dictionary and then I liked writing them down and trying to build up some sentences immediately

zhengquan schrieb: The Collins Cobuild English Dictionary pronounces the new way, and ... resource. Can the s-z evolution be attributed to Americanism invasion? My Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English gives both pronunciations, but

I am sorry that I'm not writing to you in our beautiful mother tongue, but I want also other people to understand. Being an experienced student of English, I can tell you that what is common, is not always considered correct and the other way

I'm not sure about Europe in general, but in England ... however, more of a legal entity than a physical one. Not often at all - unless the "local church" was a monastery, Quite right; muddled posting on my part. (What I was trying

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

Any genre. Post it here by sundown tomorrow. Not really sure why I'm doing this. But the article did set this sequence in my mind and I had to write it out. Here it goes. Oh, and I do hope the formatting goes off well. It looks good on my