Well, I went overboard again, but this one was rather fun. I would be willing to bet, Ching, that you know that occasionally, non-native speakers with a smattering of UK/US language skills do their best to advertise that fact to their advantage,

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Anyone with a dictionary that either providesShould have been "provides ... to acquire the correct pronunciation without needing a teacher's help. That could be said for virtually anything: you can find the

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary English verb that is

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

In my kind of talk, in the sense you mention, ... clearly, a schwa replaces the vowel. "I k'n gowith you". Do you have the "pin"/"pen" merger? (If so, where are you from?) If youdo, your "kin"

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

Would the usage "nucular" be attached only to macho domains such as "war" and "weapons" or would be also used as an adjective to describe "medicine," "research" and "family?" I've

Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one ... hadn't thought about it, but I've heard "stripe-ped" before. Pondial? I think it's more poetic than pondial. And the line does need an extra syllable. It's a survival

> I don't recall, never used them. Probably followed the chip or tube pronunciation patterns. Usage as seen on the web is mixed, but only found 3 sites. My guess is that it started out as "four thousand four", because of the

I wonder whether this is really the modern sense of "cool". Granted, it seems to be used to suggest "approval". Actually, thinking about it again, it seems that there are only two possibilities: (a) "Cool" =