Grammar Geek wrote: Not that this is on topic, but I'm intrigued. A posting outside a building is called a label in BrE? What is a sign? Well, GG, it's in NnsE - Non-native speaker's English! In other words, using label is a sign that you're

Hey Dex 17, I'm so glad you told that 14 year old all of that. I was wanting to after reading that racist drivel. I couldn't agree more, intelligence is not really race specific as it is people specific, and even then it's touch and go. There

And in Spanish "Usted" is often abbreviated "Ud." When I was in high school (and the1st year of college), it was abbreviated Vd. (or vd.). Has that changed? (It's been 40+ years.) The fairly recent (1998) Oxford Spanish

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

Huh. In the early part of my life, before Laura became as common a name as it is now, I ... correct people who wanted to call me Gloria) and explain that my surname (Frank) had no "s" on the end. When I was a child, I dreaded the first

In Devon (UK), there is a town called Topsham. The locals (and those in the know) pronounce it Tops-um, others call it Top-sham. See: http://www.topsham.org/ The town of Horsham in Sussex is properly pronounced "Horse-um" or even

I have been worrying overnight whether I am a construct ... genuine independent person. This will help me sleep at night. Professor John Lawler, of the University of Michigan's Linguistics Department, posts from that university at Ann Arbor,

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced

My fellow court reporting students and I are in disagreement ... insightful comments on this would be most appreciated. Thank you. Phonemically, it doesn't matter, as there are, to the best of my knowledge, no words that are distinguished by