More legalese! An attorney would be so helpful to you... Have you looked up attorn in an on-line dictionary? - I like www.dictionary.com because it compiles meanings from many sources, including specialty dictionaries Merriam-Webster's

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones,

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule here. However: If you have a two syllable word that ends with an 'a', it's typical that the vowel in the first is short. Like 'dada', 'feta', etc. This is not a rule so much as a pattern that should

I'm surprised at the 'wrapped' spelling. I always assume it camefrom 'rapture'. That occurred to me too, but I suspect it's just an extension of 'wrapped' as in 'immersed' or 'absorbed', which is

}> }> I can half understand why we don't say Paree, but why shouldn't }> English speaking people be able to sort out the local pronunciations }> of proper nouns in English speaking countries? Why do all English }> people, it

I have occasionally heard "catholic" pronounced "c@ thol' ic" (@ = schwa) to distinguish it from "Catholic". I think the standard pronunciation of 'arithmetic' (the adjective) is /,&r@T'***/

A recent addition to the paradigm is "embed/imbed", which gained a new sense as a noun during the invasion of ... and the noun as ('Im bEd) rather than ('Em bEd) (even though the preferred spelling is "embed" rather

But not every -ing form is a gerund. I think ... or "he is raising Cain" (verb)? I hear the second. Yet the example referred to the first. Maybe pluralizing the highlighted nouns will clarify the point: Kids enjoy raising beans.