By Spelling, Jokes

The European Commission have just announced an agreement wherebyEnglish will be the official language of the EU, rather than German, whichwas the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty'sgovernment conceded that English spelling had some room for...

.pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect?Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A nounWould you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation.I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

this way and maybe in 1000 years it won t have anything to do with the way it s written Jim Well I

You, mctastic, truly didn't understand the point of the quotation that precedes the word "Handey." If you would notice, then you would have realized that "Handey" is actually the American humorist Jack Handey. Why else would someone put the word "handy" in parentheses after a quotation? Perhaps...

A couple of trivial and irrelevant things. Hi anonymous person, no , it didn't. in fact i think it's better to be more formal. Your remark seems ironic to me because of the complete lack of capitals. Was this deliberate? Did I just misread your joke? Hi MrP, someone must speak for patients...

the problem with English spelling is that we borrow and have borrowed an infinite amount of words over the years but have never been good about changhing the original orthography when we take these words into our writing system; thus, we have many words that don't seem to conform to any...

1) How long is a piece of string? Exactly 27.82cm. Anything other this is either shorter or longer than it should be. 2) Who Said an Orange should be called an Orange , and not a Window? First, windows weren't invented back then. Second, it was almost called a Green because long ago, at the...

Hi The Sweet Desert, The Sweet Desert wrote: I really like accurate people so do I, but I really doubt I'm that much accurate remember that even native speakers commit mistakes, don't they?. I guess they are, but I'm not a native English Speaker Your words were all marvelous and the advice you...

hi everyone i have heard once this expression(she was the butte of the joke in college) well, i am not sure about the spelling of butte ((it just sounds like but))

Canadianisms, eh? Obviously, some of these things are uniquely Canadian, such as the coins and French words, however a lot of these seem like "normalisms", i.e. not u.s., just like a lot of things are the same the world over, except for the u.s., especially names of things. I assume the writing...