Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

1. Have you ever thought about retaining some aspects of your first language Generally speaking, no, because English is a separate language. Of course it's easy to make mistakes because of the influence of my native language, but as I said, I

I don't hate America, Charles, and I certainly don't hate Americans. What I hate is being forced to do things in a certain way here. There's a big difference. I find this thread fascinating and I can see Chris's points. I think

When people write to me addressing me as "Graham", I usually reply with "who?" That might work for the spoken name, too. Have you tried that on US speakers that call you "Gram"? Or is that pronunciation only used when

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

} ... }>> There's no (E). } }> In yours, maybe. Check Skitt's. } } He's Latvian. Note his (semi-)voiced in "Volks-." Noted. I noted that yesterday. }> No, what you're describing here is a hypercorrection of

R H Draney infrared: I have a videotape of the Beatles appearing on an ... to understand one another, and there were no translators evident.. I have several colleagues from various parts of South America, so it's not unusual to hear a

I have been worrying overnight whether I am a construct ... genuine independent person. This will help me sleep at night. Professor John Lawler, of the University of Michigan's Linguistics Department, posts from that university at Ann Arbor,

Anachronism, pronunciationwise. For obvious reasons, I've never heard an ancient Roman speaking Latin. Ican only imagine how the Latin should sound, i.e. ... sounds different from French - Latin, or American-Latin, or Russian-Latin. The same

AUE Apocrypha Update... We've long sought a solid attribution of "ghoti = fish" to George Bernard Shaw: . Various cites have turned up from 1938 onwards, though nothing ties "ghoti" to Shaw until 1961 (more than a decade