MrM: Oh, did I reverse them? Sorry. RH: I can only speak for my search . BrE seems to favor "served" roughly 9 to 1. ================== MrM: I was not concerned with what 'a speaker might envision'-- my experience is that speakers

Mr Micawber: I've been trying to reconstruct the grammar. Although the BrE results are weighted toward 'serve', I see the original as something like: RH: Don't you mean "BrE results are weighted toward 'serveD'", with a 'd', Mr Micawber?

I didn't check, Mr Micawber. I don't think, though I could be wrong, that that type of Google search recognizes hyphens. Also, hyphens mark newer collocations in English. They aren't necessary for well established idioms.

Googled: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,550,000 English pages for "first come first serve". Results 1 - 10 of about 3,520,000 English pages for "first come first served". UK Pages Only: Results 1 - 10 of about 265,000 for "first come

"The National Archives contain information so __ that researchers have been known never to publish because they cannot bear to bring their studies to an end. A divisive B seductive C selective D repetitive E resourceful" The answer

D hardworking ... minutely The answer is D. I don't get why she still failed to bring the expected number to trail, even though she minutely prepared the cases. And what is "expected number"? ============= The implication is that

The current version of the Oxford English Dictionary groups the uses of 'so' into 40 ... RH: In this case the present progressive is inappropriate, Paco. The difference here is that the OED has done something that points it towards the general

Mahmer: is there any differences she mustnt have called you,bez she was with us RH: This is poooossible but it sounds a wee bit strange given the circumstances. means a logical deduction made because the overwhelming preponderance of

Words often have many meanings. A peek in the dictionary shows that 'so' has 27 different uses that are separate from the defintion of 'so' as a conjunction. Even within the conjunction definition there are a number of different uses. Students