Hi alc24, The first version of your first sentence is the one I would choose because it is flows nicely and says clearly what you mean. The second version is grammatical and understandable; but, It took me the time it takes... has a very awkward

Like Yankee, I think the expression was probably picked up by the general public through movies, although that does not adequately explain the Liverpool connection I don't know about the American usage, but I had assumed

Whilst both 'gotten' and 'forgotten' are Americanisms in one sense, the latter is used with increasing frequency in post-WW2 Britain, in which American language has had a stronger influence. It is a falsehood that

I was looking for some advice online on the use of the word feedback as a verb as opposed to a noun and came across this forum. Is this usage correct: "I will feedback to you once I receive the results." Is it proper to use the word

Designed badly, then, in my view. Most of the questions ... variety of bun) rhyme with 'gone' or 'stone' or 'boon'?" Not entirely fair, I think - e.g. the "alley" question includes ginnel and snicket. But no

They do have very similar usage in spoken English in this area (dialect) of the United States. However, "weird" would be considered more familiar and less formal in my opinion. Further, they both tend to have a certain degree of

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The trouble is Which books do you go by? When I was in school, both the books and my teachers ... and thought they were joking, until I saw the actual books and looked through them. They were real school books. Curious. The sort of people who

Ar an naoú lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Peter T. Daniels: *** = drunk tart = *** Those are found only in certain dialect areas. The former is used incompatibly in North America compared to the rest of the English-speaking world; from the