Welcome to the Forums, Duthay. Have a look at the sticky thread in this forum and you'll find out what we can offer you: Post:102212 Also have a look at the previous posts in this section, they may inspire you! Good luck.

That was interesting, thanks Clive.

There is no rules that can be applied to every word! And amazingly, it can be just the opposite in another language, or a different pattern in another one... However, maybe someone steps in with a logical explanation.

Yes, that's a good example. And also McDonald's slogan: I'm loving it ! (I suppose it has suggested by a native speaker.) I don't know about editors in English speaking countries. However, I took an editing course in my own country, it's not

Diluted amount is ok, just I think you need to add something to it "diluted amount of ..." And answering Alan's suggestion, the Cambridge says "diluted" is a usual American usage. And also if you google dilute amount you'll find no reference,

I vote for vapour!

Well, I'm not a native speaker, so it's better not to say anything about delicate pronunciation matters! However, as far as I know, even if "r" is at the end of the word, it can be pronunced as a weak sound. Hope it helps.

The cobuild dictionary explains the meaning of "standoff" better than me: A stand-off is a situation in which neither of two opposing groups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so nothing can happen until one of them

I think it's steam pressure if you are talking about a device, machine, ...However, vapour pressure can also be used in other contexts, for example in talking about the changing phase of liquid to vapour. Hope it helps.

MrPedantic wrote: But I'm not quite sure about the ways in which native-speaker intuition could be unreliable. Do you have any examples in mind, Milky? MrP What do you mean by "the ways", MrP? If I get you correctly, the reason