I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

Except when it comes at the beginning of the word, Americans cheat terribly on their "l's," and it seems to be getting worse. For many, "w" is about it. Unless you're in a profession where good diction is prized, the

Hi, I have a couple of questions to someone expert in Webster dictionary: 1) How many words exist in Webster dictionary? 2) If words are listed by alphabet, is it possible to be listed in any other way? Thanks I suppose I qualify as "someone

'erbs' I understand taht this was the original pronunciation. "Language colonies" ... as can be seen from rhymes in 18th century poetry. Yes, the root is 'erby' but I can't recall hearing it on TV or radio programmes

I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? It makes sense in an odd sort of way. The attempt is to represent /V/, which is probably the accented ...

I imagine that's also the reason why Americans usually mispronounce ... "Brisbane", They doubtless mispronounce the Australian city, but I suspect that Australians mispronounce the (much smaller) city of the same name in California,

Thanks for your comments, Maybe the sound I hear is what you say. By an amazing coincidence, this very subject just came up in a thread over in alt.usage.english. It turns out that apparently some British accents do have = /tSraI/. See: It is very

Steve Hayes wrote on 17 Aug 2004: It's my impression that when British people refer to a ... the "X". Certainly North American usage strongly prefers "X River". Indeed. The following sound right to me: the river Thames the

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... is fully conjugable, although some of its tenses are for the time being not used in today's English. In the same

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... as if it's a grammatical unit and the word "use" in that sense has no status as a distinct verb. This