I believe we write the school subjects in lower case . E.g.: I study g eography and m ath on Mondays and Fridays. I study h istory and s cience on Wednesdays. Correct. You may sometimes see people capitalising these words, but

Hi Ellisa, I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "fluent" here, which seems to imply only the accent/pronuciation. There are native speakers who don't speak fluently, even though their pronunication is fine,

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

I must be slow this morning, but I got there in the end. You are not the only one, even I did not get it straight away. As John seems to have noticed, in day to day life I am John Lawler. But when I first started posting to this group and

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? The only time

I believe the spelling is "When did you use to go to France?" I've always been shaky on the spelling in this case, in an attempt to reflect the pronunciation. I would normally ... me. (I do realise that it can't be justified on

At 19:22:12 on Fri, 4 Mar 2005, HB (Email Removed) wrote in : Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone name a few English dialects? We always learned (translator school in Flanders) that English had many accents, not dialects, the only dialect we ever

I believe that Shakespeare's rhymes are a good guide to ... connection between the two had already started to break down. Ahem. You haven't said which pronunciation to follow! I'm putting my money on "good", as being the one

Shakespeare happily rhymed "blood" with "good". How were those two words pronounced in his time? Do we know? I believe that Shakespeare's rhymes are a good guide to the fact that the pronunciation was the same or very