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Christanford wrote:I'm gonna have my university interview, so do you think I should that the whole "like" thing out of my system?Also, how often do British people, Canadians and Americans say "like"? Is it universal?For a university interview, I'd say you should do everything possible to avoid...

How is the generic Canadian(like from Vancouver, Toronto..) accent different from the generic US accent?I think the way Hayden Christensen speaks is very rythmic, could anyone comment on his accent so that I could try and learn that?Does it bug you that some people keep saying "like" in every...

>for example Irish people, who are counted as a minority in the UK but look just like British people. Yep! We Irish are generally an audible minority - we distinguish ourselves by our accents. Yes, invisible minorities tend to be composed of things such as religion, nationality and people...

As we're talking 'Linguistic Imperialism', I thought this might be relevant to the discussion... It's an excerpt from something I wrote a few years ago regarding the British Council and its role in ELT... “A knowledge of English gives rise in its turn to a desire to read English books, talk to...

Hi Yunus, Clive, mustn't it be go in for?. Sally has gone in for the beauty competition. like that? No, this is a different expression, relating to embarking on/entering a field of activity or study. eg When I start University, I think I may go in for accounting, because I hear there are...

Hello Krish(1) Princess Anne is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth and a noted equestrian performer. Last year, the 37-year-old daughter of the Queen and her horse finished fourth in the National Hunt at Hereford. Please compare it with "Princess Anne is the only daughter of the Queen and her...

Hello guys I have a question about 'forget' and I would like to ask it on this occasion. I've learned in school about 'forget' that we can say 'I forgot my umbrella' in the meaning of 'I inadvertently left my umbrella' but we cannot add a place adverbial to this phrase like 'I forgot my...

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S RESIGNATION SPEECH On 09th September 1999, the American President took the world by surprise by pronouncing his resignation, through a little longer speech, due to some reasons, allegedly psychological. The tension and lassitude were writ large on the face of the...