By Vowels, Commas

Close! I know what you mean (I think). I am a native English speaker (who is attempting to learn French and Spanish so I know this is hard, please keep trying, you are getting there! ), and I would write that as:Today is Saturday, so I went to the store and bought groceries. or maybe, more...

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

Well this conversation is ancient, but maybe you get a tickler when someone replies adn will find this. The guy's accent is crap. I'm Canadian but I'm from Toronto where our accent is *almost* standard American (or what we called in the film business Mid-west Flat) and I can tell you a few...

Why do you accept the period as a punctuation mark but ignore the comma, semicolon and colon?-- they have very important functions too, and this piece is in dire need of a few of them. There is no reason to capitalize 'ever'. There is no reason to separate 'extinguish' and 'forever' into two...

Yes; 'blimey' has become quite fashionable. But only in a certain tone of voice; and it must have inverted commas now. If someone tells you a startling fact, you look—startled: then you say, after a pause, and perhaps with a slightly upgraded accent, 'Blimey!' In the old 'Blimey' (Michael...