Hi Clive! thank you for answer! Jasus (UK way of saying Geez???..:-) , Sounds more like a parody of the Irish way of saying 'Jesus'. Or maybe the 'a' is just a typo. I checked the video again and he really said Jasus. Anyway,

Einde O'Callaghan wrote on 10 Aug 2004: I suspect all of us who grew up east ... more recent ones, not those lost in the 18th century. I can understand the need for the "at school" here in Taiwan, because almost all school kids go to

To me, "should have done something" connotes "*ought* to have done", but the author of the second quote is not using it in that way. I understand that usage of "should", but I don't see why Lodge used

As well as the name English, there's Welsh, Irish, French, German. Yes, but note that with those names only one interpretation of the sentence can be true. With "English", they can both be true. Wouldn't the surname English have

Yes, of course. I hadn't thought of that. Just out of curiosity, how many surnames are there from which such a sentence can be formed? Like, his last name is Short? Easy? Good? XX by name and XX by nature... Not quite. Andre talked about

Demand away. I won't do it. I think that (1) you're in the wrong age group and (2) Howard's not your type. Wrong wrong wrongity wrong and a second wrong wrong wrongity wrong, to twice use an expression Ms Richoux is fond ... man is

... A friend asked me to ask this news group about the rules applying to the use of that/which when either ... problem. What guidance can you provide my friend to choose between that and which in sentences similar to those above? It's just a