I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote: I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I

Hello. My name is Norman Foldvari, I am an English major student at Debrecen University, Hungary. I am graduating this year and I am doing a little research on my own for which I would like to ask your help. I am writing my dissertation about

Hey Dex 17, I'm so glad you told that 14 year old all of that. I was wanting to after reading that racist drivel. I couldn't agree more, intelligence is not really race specific as it is people specific, and even then it's touch and go. There

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

} ... }>> 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

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And how do you pronounce the "a" in "laf"? I pronounce it the same as the "al" in "half". Don't you? Hey, that's an interesting insight. Indeed, "laugh" and "half" rhyme in all

I'm forwarding this posting, which was originally posted to alt.english.usage, to alt.usage.english because it has remarks in it that I hope will be of interest to readers of that newsgroup. I've suppressed the identification of the AEU