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a quote from a previous postM-W's Dictionary of English Usage comments:"From as far back as 1881, there have been varying pronouncements as to which prepositions may be used with which objects after the verb die.  Sometimes disapproval is expressed of one preposition or another;...

Hi everyone,I'm new here. I hope I can learn much from this forum. I'm currently reading the novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (has anyone here read this?), and I find many phrases and idioms and sentence structures that I'm not familiar with. I hope it's okay if I post here...

Thanks, Clive.I've just been thinking about why PIN Number is more used than, for example, PC Computer, or LCD Displays... Hm... No, people actually say LCD displays! Just discovered another one sample. In case of PIN, the word itself has other meanings, used as a noun or as well as a verb. So...

Just out of curiosity, Mr. P, how do you distinguish a native speaker who's learned a non-standard form of English from a decent non-native speaker? (e.g. How can you tell if a speaker born in India, Singapore or other Asian countries is native?) MrPedantic wrote: 1. Discrepancies of register....

Hello EU Here are some things that occur to me: 1. Discrepancies of register. A non-native speaker's English may be impeccable, for the most part; but slight failures of tone or register are most noticeable, in impeccable English. For instance, the non-native may use a word which a native...

Yes. He died of gunshot wounds is certainly an external cause.M-W's Dictionary of English Usage comments:"From as far back as 1881, there have been varying pronouncements as to which prepositions may be used with which objects after the verb die. Sometimes disapproval is expressed of one...