Brilliant. So's this: It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a

In spoken British English, most people either do not use 'whom', or tend to use it wrongly. 'For those of you who are training'. - correct. As a general, easily remembered rule, use 'whom' only in questions, after

1. Whom should I report to is correct. You use "whom" when it involves an objective pronoun and "who" when it involves a subjective pronoun. Example: 1. Whom should I report to? A: I should report to him . -"him" is

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At 13:49:31 on Tue, 24 May 2005, Phil C. (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): Mrs C. teaches English and students tell her that they find her much easier to follow than some other native ... to communicate to monoglots in German and Spanish

If you say that to me, you say nothing. As a description of a sound, "aw" has no useful meaning. But I think it does have some useful meaning to the community of CINC AmE speakers. I think if you were CINC you'd understand. I doubt

If I want you to use the vowel of your ... order to accomplish that? What would you suggest I write? Before I made a suggestion, I would want to be persuaded that there was some good reason for you to want me to use a vowel when you don't know

However, an additional factor is that "ghetto" or "ebonics" woud be different in Britain than in the USA. Why should ... the speechpatterns of the Carribean, possibly also with some influence from other groups descended from

Your comments seem to suggest, innerestingly, that the features we think of as the Great Upper Midwestern Vowel Shift (also ... could rural speech have made any headway in the cities, where "country people" have traditionally been held

Condoleeza Rice Condoleezza. Her parents derived it from the Italian "con dolcezza" (with sweetness), which accounts for the double z, but makes it harder to explain why a c was removed *and* another e was added. in her testimony today