Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

1. Have you ever thought about retaining some aspects of your first language Generally speaking, no, because English is a separate language. Of course it's easy to make mistakes because of the influence of my native language, but as I said, I

I speak English, Swedish and Finnish. The last one is the most difficult for me without any doubt. But it depends on what makes the language in question difficult to different people. For me, Finnish is tough because of its vocabulary that doesn´t

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

On 21 Aug 2004, Mike Lyle wrote about "station" But of course, in UK (not being a member of the RAF) ..which brings to mind another pronunciation query. One often hears "the RAF" pronounced in the UK as "the Raff",

I don't hate America, Charles, and I certainly don't hate Americans. What I hate is being forced to do things in a certain way here. There's a big difference. I find this thread fascinating and I can see Chris's points. I think

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

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

} ... }>> 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

R H Draney infrared: I have a videotape of the Beatles appearing on an ... to understand one another, and there were no translators evident.. I have several colleagues from various parts of South America, so it's not unusual to hear a