As far as I know, you usually can't leave out "got" after "have" in negative and...

I just phoned a hospital in England and was told by a recorded voice that the extension...

Odd pronunciations of English words derived from French (some of which have been...

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, under "split infinitive" The...

Over the last few years there have been quite a few posts lamenting a gradual loss...

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Do You Speak American is a program which will appear on the US television network...

My brother and I had a fight just now. It's 9PM Friday evening and I've been sent...

I'm reading a book about Malta and they keep saying "he was in hospital", "they were...

I would very much appreciate if there would be an ASCII IPA list of how-to-pronounce...

Hello, I'm looking for an English usage website: the sort that will tell me the difference...

I've noticed many young people mispronounce R, substituting it with W (Johnathon...

Has the use of "wallah" to mean "voila" spread to print, or is it strictly an internet...

I'm a non-native user of English and I've just been asked by some friends to settle...

Since we've just begun a new calendar year, I thought it would be fun to make a...

In discussions of the British pronunciation of "oregano" in this thread, it has been...

HI I teach an American English basic education class. One student, last evening,...

In alt.english.usage , we have been discussing the possible origin of "Well, doggies...

Hi all, I'm quite good at English, but I cannot understand at all the paragraph under...

English usage along the lines of "you have to destroy the village to save them":...