GG, I did imagine Antonio the cat in his boots when I was thinking about "cats in their felt boots". I've just started the book. The story looks interesting.

Thanks Yankee, you reinforce my untold reasoning.

That's what I thought on my first read. But I was told that by the way the sentence is structured, "their" should mean "cats" to be more grammartically correct, or otherwise ambiguity arises. Any comment on that?

Hi The following sentences appears in Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth", first page in prologue. "The small boys came early to the hanging. It was still dark when the first three or four of them sidled out of

Hi, I would like to know the usage of the words "serrated" and "jagged". Does "jagged" especially mean pointed/sharp structures and "serrated" more curved ones? Also, is there a situation where these

Yankee, thanks for your clarification. I got this another related question. Does acronym exempt from this "an LED" rule? Do we always try to pronounce an acronym before we precede it with an "a" or "an"?

You are absolutely right. But I'm just wondering if people in the field of LED would pronounce it as "led". If that's the case, it may justify high percentage of "a LED" used.

Hi, a LED v. an LED Which is correct? Google and you'll find they are nearly equally used.

Hi How do you put the following inequality in words? 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 1.0 Specifically, does the following sentence properly describe the above inequality? "X is equal to, or greater than 0.1 and equal to, or less than

Hi there, got his very simple question (not one I can answer though...) When is the plural form of a unit used? For any amount less than unity, is it proper to give them plurality? (am I missing some linguistic reasoning here) For