Hi, everyone. Yesterday, I was talking to an American friend and she told me that when she was working as a waitress in London somewhere, the customers would refer to Sprite/SevenUp as lemonade. So, when they asked for lemonade, it was the fizzy

Hi guys, In American English, a doctor who specialises in internal medicine is called an "internist". What about in Britain? Thanks a lot

Hi Everybody I'm Marco I come from Italy (but I didn't vote for Berlusconi ) I've spent a year in USA for learning english, I wanna keep fresh my english and improve as well with vocabulary, bye from Italy

What is 'the/a short end of the deal'? -- the disadvantageous side. Does this date expression 7/5 mean 7th of May? -- Or the 5th of July. No matter what any style guide tells you, there will always be confused readers if you use numerals only.

This is not an English question but because visitors of this site are from a wide range of countries ,I ask it here.Which language has an easy listening?.I mean if you learned a good vocabulary and grammar of that language, you would recognise

Yes, the accent (and even vocabulary) of American English differs from region to region of the country. Some people respectfully and humbly suggest that foreign students try to speak like native speakers who live on the West Coast (Washington,

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1. "Ménage à trois" (actually a French term but used in English too) and "love triangle" are possibilities. The first means that the three people engage in sexual activity all together or in various pairings with everyone's

Hi, But the scantily clad women are actually doing pole dancing, not lap dancing. (Surely you don't want me to go into the details of lap dancing -- if "dancing" is what you want to call it! Sorry about that. I thought it was the

Hey there I didn't want to create another one topic named 'The difference between AmE and BrE', so I decided to write here. I hope nobody feels strongly about it. A few days ago I found an interesting list of AmE/BrE vocabulary. And