The meaning and the pronunciation. Pronunciation: Ms: /miz/ Miss: /mis/ Meaning: Miss is used for single women, usually quite young of age. Think of "Miss America", "Miss World". Ms is used to address women politely, e.g. at

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

Thefreedictionary.com says the word "hurried" and "married" for USA and UK accents. For USA they are HER-eed and MARE-eed, but for UK they are Huh-rid and MARE-id. Given that there are 4 times as many native English speakers in

And how about hafta, gotta, gonna, wanna, shoulda... even on the news - Peter Jennings started using them on the evening news! If I fully enunciated "have to" "going to", "want to" and other common reductions in a

Hey Renan, I can just tell you that some Americans DO use the simple past with already, yet, ever/never. I clearly remember a post in the pronunciation section where there was a video from the TV series Lost, and a guy asked a girl "Did you

I'm afraid I misread your post. So I guess the Irish spelling is Cian, and the spelling you plan to use is Kean, which is anglicized. With "Sean," (my son's name) the Irish spelling is "Sean" and the anglicized version

(Email Removed) schrieb: Hello, This my first post to this group. I was asked a question by a friend of mine: Why is ... use one over the other. I don't personally think such a rule exists, but does anyone know the answer definitively? As you

Hi, I need some advice regarding ESL instruction. I don't have any formal ESL training or certification, but I do ... write in thinking that even someone with formal ESL certification would not necessarily have the skills needed to help her?

Yes, yes. But you do have to put forward some ... you have to provide evidence that that might have happened. One should not insist that the etymology of an idiom be proven more precisely or accurately than the etymology of words and phrases that

Nick Wagg: How often do you speak Flemish at work? For that matter, I speak Dutch more often than English. I am British but lived in Eindhoven for many years. My wife and I learned to speak Dutch quite fluently, although we spoke English at home,