Django Cat wrote on 07 Apr 2004: Carlos may mean 'penguins'. You do know why polar bears don't eat penguins? Yep. So near and yet so antipodally far. Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor. For email, ehziuh htiw rehpycrebyc ecalper.

Professional courtesy. ba-bom! A UK politician was disciplined over a joke about sharks (which I'm not passing on but can be easily found) recently.

Consider these two sentences: A group of men played with the dogs. They were energetic. The word "they" may possibly ... is the phrase "A group of men" a special sort of plural, so that "they" can be applied to it? In

sprocket schrieb: Virtually all nouns that refer to groups behave in this ... of England. We supply high-quality widgets to the widget-processing industry." That's a poor example, as the "we" refers back to the group of people

Virtually all nouns that refer to groups behave in this way. Take for example the word "company": "Our company is based in the South-west of England. We supply high-quality widgets to the widget-processing industry." That's

Martin Sondergaard schrieb: Consider these two sentences: A group of men played with the dogs. They were energetic. The word "they" may possibly ... similar phrases, called by a term known to linguists, which have this property of being

Consider these two sentences: A group of men played with the dogs. They were energetic. The word "they" may possibly refer to "the group of men", not to the dogs. This seems illogical, because "A group" is single, it

whoa beeves? i've never heard that.  i don't really think there's a rule of "f"s. just follow your instinct. when in doubt, consult your friend, the dictionary.

Yes but not a single one of you has addressed his original question... He isn't talking about multiple heads of romaine or multiple heads of green leaf lettuce. He is talking about multiple heads of different types of lettuce. For instance,

Yes but not a single one of you has addressed his original question... He isn't talking about multiple heads of romaine or multiple heads of green leaf lettuce. He is talking about multiple heads of different types of lettuce. For instance,