Thanks for the answer CB! What is acceptable varies from person to person and therefore there can be no guidelines or standards that are always applicable. You are right. There are lots of regional variations that people never take into account,

I feel we could put the definite article "the" in front of the word "words" ... Synonyms are the words that have the same __. No. It's not normal to define an indefinite expression with a definite expression. CJ

Could anybody correct the article below for me and suggest me some better expression s or words or idioms base d on the writing below? Please correct my pronouns. 2nd May 2009 7:00p.m. This is my first time start writing diaries seriously. (you

Hi All, I'm writing a business offer in English, but I'm not a native English speaker, so I've faced a number of trubles. I would like the following things to be corrected if there are any mistakes: 1. Articles (in russian

Hello. I'm Marta, come from Poland. I'm working on a text in English and have encountered a few problems. These are mostly of a rather subtle nature but for several reasons it's important for me that the whole text sounds as

Hi Thomas, That helps. I think I may be on the right track. Accountants, statisticians , people who collect facts and reduce them to percents and ratios, etc., are often referred to as "number crunchers," and what they do is referred to

“The Tobacco Company talks well. Representatives of the industry itself came forward to us and asked if we would go to the table...” –PBS article on the Tobacco industry. “'Tis but a peevish boy, yet he talks well…”-Shakespeare. “On good

Hello Anon "Here were gold pencil-cases, little ruby hearts with golden arrows through them, bosom-pins, pieces of coin, and small articles of every description, comprising nearly all that have been lost since a long time ago ." This is a sentence

Richard Maurer wrote (in part): My dictionaries only have the "unpredictable" sense for idiomatic, It would help if you would give an example of a dictionary that uses "unpredictable" in defining "idiomatic", or that

Mark Brader: A more common expression for this is "bicapitalized" (or, of ... as the primary entry and "InterCaps" as a British synonym. Graeme Thomas: I have also seen "StUdLyCaPs" (or was it "sTuDlYcApS"?)