Thankfully, those dinosaur days of multimedia are long gone. Or are they? Wouldn't it more correct to say: Thankfully, those dinosaur days of multimedia are long gone. Or aren't they?

I was watching a women billiards tournament rerun on ESPN last week, and I had set the TV set to show the closed captions. Well, I know closed captions are not always accurate. But I read a phrase that I need you to tell me is correct or not.

Which is correct: The house fell down or The house has fallen down ?

Hello Paultx I am interested in buying my Brazilian friend a copy of Wuthering Heights. Can you recommend anywhere I can get Wuthering Heights in Brazilian Portuguese? I can only find

<P> <BR>and, Pizzazz is a modern American onomatapeic (I bet you're reaching for the dictionary now) word. Onomatapeia comes from ancient Greece and refers to a word created to reflect a sound, eg drip which describes the action of

Here in Brazil "Wuthering Heights" was translated and gained a title that is something like "The mound of the howling winds". And I must confess I haven't read it-yet-neither in English nor in Brazilian Portuguese. So at

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Here in Brazil we have this saying "Aos amigos tudo, aos inimigos a lei". It can be translated like this: "For friends all; for foes the law." I wonder if there is a corresponding saying in English.

Sometimes I see TV shows or movies with some funny titles I wonder what do they mean to native English speakers. Two examples: A scanner darkly (movie) Wire in the blood (series)