Tony Cooper wrote on 31 May 2004: I would not use it that way. And because you would not use it that way, no one may use it that. "You have nothing to point to but a history of incorrigible usage mistakes as your credentials". I'm

How can mistakes be incorrigible? Want a second shot at ... at the maker of the mistakes and not the mistake. Why? Incorrigible mistakes cannot be corrected total snafus. Corrigible mistakes are reversible errors. Special care should be taken when

Is the pronunciation "nucular" more common in certain parts of the US or is its usage fairly equal throughout the country? Based on my experiences living in a few places in the East and in the West, I don't believe it to be a

So the basic question is: Is the Cambridge pronunciation of ... or ride a "BOOSS". Which **should** it be? Cap orCup? Why not choose the intermediate solution that (it seems to me) isoffered by prestige varieties of AmE, notably Postwar

Harvey Van Sickle (Email Removed) burbled Came across this in another group this morning (in a thread about the current virus), and found it interesting: yet ... I'd not come across "on mass" before, but it strikes me as an