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is this sentence correct everyone is willing to help us
Several media outlets in Boston had article this week about some recent near misses on the runways of Logan airport. The Boston Globe (and its website) used the terms "near-crash...
Hello! Could you explain me the meaning of 'the final straw'? What does it mean? "Then, he claims, the gangsters began threatening physical violence against anyone who took his...
There's a scandal currently rocking the globe involving the London office of the law firm of Baker & McKenzie (which is sort of the McDonald's of international law firms) where...
I don't know how to pronounce 'manor'. Is it read the same as 'manner'?
I want to use something as a simile, but I can't think of what it is. It is a kind of plant that reproduces itself as it grows; I have a mental picture of something that I think...
Noted in a Russell Baker column from 1965: "Observer: America's New Class System" New York Times, Apr. 11, 1965, p. E14 Your teen-age daughter asks what you think of her "shades...
Since I am here by invitation ( unusual in Usenet groups )I thought that I might ask a question. A stutter is pretty well established as a nervous problem in some people and tends...
"Murderess." "Primitive totalitarian." "Three times over - for what right has /she/ to say that /we/ can't exist . Crypto-criminal mind!" It's an excerpt from the book "Time Enough...
Can anyone tell me what "tanking" means in the following excerpt? June 21, 2005-With the Downing Street Minutes that unmask his lies, with his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lost...
Elegant variation has been mentioned here recently. Flagrant examples of it can be found in news items at ESPN soccernet.com. For example Belozoglu Emre's possible move from Inter...
From [link] : 'With extended longevity, a new model for all the stages of life will arrive. I think that the years between 18 and 25 will be young adulthood; 25 to 40, adulthood;...
Ian Rankin, in Fleshmarket Alley (2004) repeatedly uses the spelling "whiskey" in reference to Scotch. Is this an accepted spelling in Scotland? (The action takes place in Edinburg...
Read in Paul Krugman's piece in today's NYT: "On one side, the people who sold this war, unable to face up to the fact that their fantasies of a splendid little war have led to...
It's a strange feeling to find that an ordinary looking word has long been used in a strange sense that you've never heard of. I recently came across the word "fixture" meaning...
Anyone got any idea how long that irritating mispronunciation of the plural of "process" has been around? For the last 5 years I've been hearing some folks pronounce it as if were...
Both are common in HongKong. Could anyone tell me where are their origins? Clifford
RTE of Ireland reported in their online edition yesterday that an annual study of the cost of living* in the world's cities conducted by Mercer Human Resources, whoever they are...
What would the rule be about using a negative as a positive? What would that type of word or phrase be called? Example: "Let's see if we can't find a solution." or "I wonder if...
Hi, I am describing something that didn't happen in the past using past perfect tense. The case is that some scientists did not make up scientific data that seemed more acceptable...
Americans rarely read! Conjecture, yes, but what else could explain this? I don't think it can be blamed on the penetration of the internet, as those nations top of the list...
I'm not a native speaker of English, as some of you may remember (the mistakes I'm bound to make will remind you soon!), and sometimes, when construing a question I realize that...
To Brits: Which American spellings look the most wrong to you, and which American spellings do you occasionally find yourself using? To Americans: Which British spellings look...
Can You Pass a British Citizenship Test? Locate tongue firmly in cheek and go to: [link] I got 10 right, but I'm convinced one of the official answers is wrong. Matti