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

This adoption of Y for thorn then led back into ... in pre-letterpress days except by mistake; nothing deliberate about it.) This is very interesting stuff. I understand that one of the reasons for English being so un-phonetic is that the ... its

This adoption of Y for thorn then led back into manually written material (not just manuscript, but display signwriting). Er, perhaps. (I don't believe that Y was used for thorn in pre-letterpress days except by mistake; nothing deliberate

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

I find odd that, knowing that in English the present ... of Latin, our two words infinitive should not be split". When, if ever, did you study linguistics? Yesterday, as almost everyday. If you mean more formal studying, two months ago I

I find odd that, knowing that in English the present active infinitive is two words, and knowing that in Latin ... words can be split, then, in English, following the rules of Latin, our two words infinitive should not be split". When, if

Jones: Hmmm...maybe you people aren't dumb. Maybe you just never learned the vowel sounds in terms of "long" and "short". ... with the actual length of the vowels. It just means that each English vowel has, in general, two

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) wrote on 31 Dec 2003: When half a dozen people, not including me, have already explained what's going on, and you continue to repeat your original mistake, you have earned some exasperation. I will

When half a dozen people, not including me, have already explained what's going on, and you continue to repeat your original mistake, you have earned some exasperation. You are again reifying "phonetic symbols" in a symbolization ...

I'm afraid I can't make allowances for your interpretational skills. ... ability here I bow to your superior knowledge of incompetence. Tell me, o clever dean, why would someone apply the label "phonogram" to an entity that