I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

"I can feel scare" - as I said it's not grammatical. I feel __ without an article requires an adjective. I feel the/a __ requires a noun. I can feel the/a ____ also requies a noun. I can feel ____ with an adjective sounds

When Eleanor lost both of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother, Mary Hall. Due to Eleanor 's shyness, she did not have many friends; basically her classmates thought that she was weird. The years that Eleanor spent with her

I found in some government websites (mostly UK and commonwealth countries) the term "Births registration". Is this grammatically correct? Shouldn't it be singular when a noun is used as an adjective?

Dan schrieb: I disagree - for me it's tango class ... to the names of languages are capitalised. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan Context is all important here, of course. But, for the sake of standardization, I think there still needs to be ...

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented dkra broadcast on alt.usage.english: At any rate, here are a few I've seen: abit (a bit, a small amount) alot (a lot, a large ... everyday (every day - "every" modifies

Quite by chance(1), yesterday (Sat 31st), I was walking along Southwark Street in London (just behind Tate Modern) and saw a sign on a building reading (all in capitals, which I will eschew here) "Kirkcaldy's Testing and Experimenting

There is such a thing as unacceptable ignorance. There's also such a thing as forgiveable or tolerable ignorance. Classifying Jews as "a race", in the contemporary context, crosses a line and enters into the realm of unacceptable

I'd be grateful for US opinions about whether one can start a sentence with "More important,', or if it has ... raised. Does the form without -ly sound as odd to American ears as the form with it does to mine? I've read all the

Sickly is fine, as is poorly and saintly. I think 'goodly' exists too. Poorliest doesn't seem to be listed in many online dictionaries, although there are online examples of its use, and I can imagine using it on occasion. But in