What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Hi I didn't mean to undermine your answer. I'm sorry if I implied such a thing, but I was merely giving an example and saying that, given the actual pronunciation of most of these suffixes, I find it more logical to use -ize, since people

Vctory: Here is a site that has analyzed words by frequency of use and posted many lists for study. There is an American English and British English list. http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/l/ The related words you listed all have

Bla, bla, bla With this letter I would like to explain my motivation for an internship at your company. I graduated from Technical University of Moldova; Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics Faculty in July 2007 where I obtained a degree in

In reading a book about native American languages, I came across two lovely kinship words. The first, from Apache, is ... relatives. I was wondering if anybody knows some interestiong kinship words in various languages that do not exist in

participle. Either can be used in any of your three example sentences above. (etc., etc.) Calm down, silly; nobody's talking about your mother. Though it may not be a steadfast rule, the conjugation of "-en" verbs that I mentioned is

Phonetic spelling as in subject... I was watching a BBC programme on Edward Hopper, which relied strongly on an interview ... this is it found in some carefully-delineated dialect of artistic America, or is it perhaps just one man's

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

} The elements of my e-mail address are all there in ASCII } text for anyone or any bot that wants to look at the source } language. You haven't eliminated the possibility of a bot } being able to decipher e-mail addresses. You've only

poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes? "-ard", which I think is productive in French, has supplied English with ***, coward, drunkard, sluggard, ***, &