David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted to" is a grammatical error. It would be the same if "didn't wanted to" was pronounced the same as

Perceiving "used to" to be a modal verb leads ... used to" and "I use to" in a past sense. That's a spelling mistake, not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical error in the same way that "didn't wanted

How do I seem to have fallen into that trap? Clearly, they would be effectively two different words. Your use of "would be" instead of "are" reveals that you evidently still don't understand the true meanings of "used

As a Brit, I always treat Lego as an uncountable noun. (Sorry, snipped a material bit) Yes, it is strange which Pondian differences seem to matter most. I'd love to see a theory. (Warning, I am just an interested amateur, so none of this is

You are correct, sir. BTW, in Goodfellas Joe ... one known to New York speakers. Ross Howard take note. Ross Howard is too busy flicking furrowed-browed through his *Goodfellas* screenplay to try and find where the hell Secaucus was even mentioned

Sorry to have missed Daffy's and Porky's portrayals :) , but the standard American way is still "ROBin Hood" as ... pleasant high-baritone whose dialect was somewhere midway: "Feared by the bad, lahved by the good (long

example of Whoa. "Was" is pronounced by me and presumably by you ... happens to be a sort of phonemic respelling of "was"). Well, this brings us back to what I was saying about phonetic spelling sometimes being mistaken for eye