Hi Alc You may have better luck in getting quick responses if you post fewer sentences in each thread. Your assumption that checking and responding to your long lists of sentences is very quick work is not the case. Are you being paid to correct

If you mean he possesses a red car then you don't need "got"; you can just say "My father has a red car". Nevertheless, in British English it's extremely common in conversation for people to use "got" to

Yes Avangi, there are a great many differences between the two. They even use searate dictionaries; Oxford English & Websters American Dictionaries. Some of the most common differences are tap/faucet, pavement/sidewalk & the boot of

As far as I know, when a French word begins with a vowel, the glottal stop precedes it. This does not happen in English, but many dialects (e.g. the urban dialects of London, Edinburgh, etc.) use the glottal stop in words such as "little,

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It's a sign of poor English on hearing someone say ... American English, since few of us fall into that trap. As if you didn't know what I meant, Charles. Idiom is one thing; error is another. Yabbut one man's idiom can be another

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Fight to save English spelling A campaign is being launched to protect English words from being replaced by American spellings. Colchester MP Bob Russell wants to prevent youngsters from being shown words such as "utilize",

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