Hello, I composed a vocabulary exercise. Could you please tell me if you agree with the suggested answers? What do you think of the level of this exercise? Thank you! 1. The crowds lingering on the streets were ………………….

What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

Poor Richard's Almanack was published in the 1700s by Benjamin Franklin. This is from Wikipedia: Franklin, the American inventor , statesman , and publisher , achieved success with Poor Richard's Almanack . Almanacks were very

(No, not the great film by John Landis.) In the UK they have a satellite TV channel which seems to be similar to the US channel Spike TV, called Movies 4 Men. The great thing about M4M is that they have an easy to search schedule... the bad thing

Hi all I recently came across the following reply in an (American) play: 'Beaty don't know nothing! Hills of beans have flags in them announcing what Beaty knows!' Beaty being a particularly stupid character in the play. I know that

hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

Yes, that's right, *that* "Roots". Believe it or not, I had never seen it before outside of a few snippets of the first episode in high school history class.This miniseries is not quite killed stone dead, but badly crippled enough by

I am an American school teacher with two degrees and 23 years of experience. This sentence is a classic example of a "run-on" sentence. I get tired before I get to the end of it (LOL). One hint is to break it up at the comma. Remember,

American Heritage has this to say about this ongoing triviality: Writers who use hopefully as a sentence adverb, as in Hopefully the measures will be adopted, should be aware that the usage is unacceptable to many critics, including a