My friend ( a non native English speaker, Spanish in fact )and a translator by profession , recently had to write a report about an assault that he experienced. When writing about the actual words that were said to him prior to the assault , he

2 whether used as a function word usually with correlative or or with or whether to indicate (1) until the early 19th century a direct question involving alternatives; (2) an indirect question involving stated or implied alternatives <decide

Hi guys, can you please help me with the next slang phrase? Context: Detectives are questioning one floor manager. They want to know, what happened when he and his three buddies were launching a rocket toy in the woods when they were kids. It went

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote on 29 Jul 2004: Evan Kirshenbaum wrote on 29 Jul 2004: It's been 32 ... of every instance of the proposal of the Christian Amendment. I certainly believe in the existence of the Christian Amendment. And I suppose

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote on 29 Jul 2004: You've brought this up before. I've never seen (and can't ... much less anything with the wording you quoted last time: It's been 32 years since I did that research, and I can assure you that

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Degrees of formality, gang. I would expect to hear the ... I would expect to encounter the second in either context. Not that I don't believe that, but where can one check these kind of things? They seemed equivalent to me. The topic to look

I have no problem accepting the view that death means ... have for envisioning a God, as I define the term. Well, there you differ from most of the faithful and the believers on Earth. They accept someone else's vision and definition of a god.

want that They are wrong, you are right. Alas and alack, it doesn't really matter that they're wrong. Their barbarism will be standard (and in M-W) within a decade. Does this gloom come from general principles, or have you encountered this

Tony Cooper wrote on 10 Jan 2004: No. "Of" is entirely the wrong word in that context - wrong part of speech. You misunderstand. I don't disagree at all that "of" was used incorrectly. What I am questioning is if it's