Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

At 18:00:43 on Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Alan Pemberton (Email Removed) wrote in : I am intrigued by the expression 'fair does'. I have only ever heard it pronounced 'fair dooze', which doesn't make ... presume it must have been the

But it is, of course, complete baloney, hooey, nonsense, and ... from "hanbag", but I'm by no means sure of that. He made no claim about your speech, he just said that if your are sounding the "d", it is a spelling

New Accent Reduction Book and CD-ROM Set Is First to Help Workforce Foreign Nationals Achieve Accurate English Pronunciation in Just One Month I suppose that either of the 'CD-ROM Set' or the 'in Just One Month' qualifiers might

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

Rational punctuation calls for not following an abbreviation with a ... word ends with. For example, "Mister" is abbreviated only "Mr". I don't quite get the rationale for calling this mode of punctuation

Remarkably, that gentle valedictory provoked a flood of letters. (Well, eight letters.) In a sense it was much adieu about nothing, Perhaps he means Much ado about nothing. Adieu is a French word use to salute someone whom one expects never to see

... } "Coop" doesn't clearly fit here, because one spelling has a } hyphen and the other doesn't. But it seems possible that } the "cooperative" sense may have at one time been spelled } the same and pronounced with two

"Coax", like "unionized", is one of the few spellings with multiple readings that have different numbers of syllables Looking over the rec.puzzles archive homograph list, I think I find 19: agape {wide open; form of love} ai

Restore pertinent discussion about the meaning of "aw": If "the sound of 'aw'" has any useful meaning, it must refer to the pronunciation that's given to the spelling "aw" in dictionaries, which is the