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

Hi, this is a phrase from a piece from New York Times, which got me confused about what it really means. - Curling up with hybrid books, Videos included. It seems that I have ever come across Curling up with somewhere in the past,

Can someone help me make this article look better. I know that it is filled with grammatical errors. I am not a native english writer and I need to improve my english. Tips & suggestions to make this article better are welcome. " Last

(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

In British-English you will frequently see the -ise or -yse suffix, while in American-English you will see -ize and -yze. I will give you an invaluable tip: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apologize