) An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun. -- OK ) The exam was adjourned since the the professor was ill. ) The government has adjudged that the country's economy is experiencing hard times so the tax rates will be

Hi there, Here's a sentence from a book " The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics" In speech, three processes, at the very least, are taking (1) place simultaneously: first, sounds are actually being (2) uttered;

You mean, pronounced "usedta" and "hasta"? No, for "used to", I mean "useta" with the /d/ assimilated to /t/ (or, at least, to a voiceless (d), which isn't quite the same thing).. Good point, but

Your attribution of quotes in the present tense is ungrammatical in written BrE. Is, or was? Are 60 million speakers anomalous? Compared to 300 million, yes. It might be an issue for someone from (say) Mumbai who's visiting on business. No, it

Your attribution of quotes in the present tense is ungrammatical in written BrE. Are 60 million speakers anomalous? Not important to you, maybe. Not important to anyone outside Smallville. After you've heard thousands of people from all over

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary English verb that is

Fonzie, might I convince you to help me raise objections to linguists' blithe and insulting decision to use the word "Philadelphia" to refer to the entire Upper Chesapeake pronunciation region? You think I don't know? I tell them

I can say this much: I would feel deeply insulted if anyone thought I spoke like Steve Irwin. The most distinctive feature I've noticed in Steve Irwin's speech (compared to other Australians I've known and heard) is that his /a/ sound