Hi everyone, I have two questions connected with my translation struggle: 1. In "The Colossus" poem, Sylvia Plath mentions a mule ("Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles/Proceed from your great lips./It's worse than

Hallo Englishforum-Team! I've just wrote a motivation letter to a hospital in Ireland. I want to go there, because it's a very good opportunity to improve my English, but I have to write a very good and correct letter of motivation first

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,

That's not surprising, knowing how Americans speak. Check it out in and getback to us. Is there such a newsgroup? I thought American English is also discussed here??? All varieties of English come up for discussion in alt.usage.english and in

Yes, but you and I use only a minor and unimportant dialect of English called "British English". Californians, I am informed, use proper 'English' as spoken by every citizen of the USofA, which differs considerably than British

An American football might, but does an ellipsoid have pointed ends? An eye is shaped like an ellipsoid, if I'm not mistaken. Regards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland

Chuck wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:49:34 +00: Not to me it doesn't. "Yous", pronounced "youz", is clearly ... with the language could mispronounce "yous", seeing it in print. I thought the 2nd person plural

In what's called "Broad Australian" (basically, a rural and working-class ... Present English which these other varieties are 'trying' to fill. The formal "you" (the second person plural like the the French

Chuck wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:49:34 +00: I ... James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not In what's called "Broad Australian" (basically, a rural and working-class

I know only two meanings, well covered by "you" and "yous", if you ever need to go that far. "You all" has the same semantics as "yous", right? Yes, Regards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland