I wrote the anonymous reply before signing up. It is correct, I have my Bachelor of Education. This is how it is taught in our school system. Please click on the link that I posted - it states clearly about using "and" as a

Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

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

Uh oh. The jangling alarm of old, hotly contested dispute. ... they're bigger, but still 0.4:1. The handwriting's on the wall. If you could run the numbers so as to get counts of UK usage and US usage separately, I would ... impression

At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my name, you

Huh. In the early part of my life, before Laura became as common a name as it is now, I ... correct people who wanted to call me Gloria) and explain that my surname (Frank) had no "s" on the end. When I was a child, I dreaded the first

In Devon (UK), there is a town called Topsham. The locals (and those in the know) pronounce it Tops-um, others call it Top-sham. See: http://www.topsham.org/ The town of Horsham in Sussex is properly pronounced "Horse-um" or even

I have been worrying overnight whether I am a construct ... genuine independent person. This will help me sleep at night. Professor John Lawler, of the University of Michigan's Linguistics Department, posts from that university at Ann Arbor,

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag Mmm, OK, I come from an ELT rather than an ... having been using it all evening, what does 'marked' mean? It comes from early structuralism (Jakobson, Prague School, and

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a