For My Wife And I
Still musing about this pronoun question, I ran some searches with some surprising...
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Sidney As A Female Name
I've just been reading "A suitable vengeance" by Elizabeth George, and have found...
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If I Were Him ...
'If I were HIM, I would never tell my wife.' Funny, this. In this conditional clause...
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Relative Pronouns?
I'm helping a friend with English-it's not her native language. But, I don't know...
"Between" And "Among"
I would be grateful if anyone could shed light on the usage of "between" and "among...
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Clarification Of A "Baseball Joke", Please
(Note cross-posts and follow-up) My partner was given a desk calendar as a little...
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Hey, Don't Call Me An Asian!
Hey, don't call me an Asian! Forwarded message from (Email Removed) ( Subject: Hey...
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Why Is It So Annoying When ...
Why is it so annoying when people use incorrect grammar or spelling ? Seeing signs...
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Pathetic
Will you help me clarify my confusion about the following paragraph? (The narrator...
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Ending A Question With A Period?
I just reread The Rebel Angels, by Robertson Davies, and was struck by the following...
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Some Odd Pronunciation Spellings
In the St. Paul Pioneer Press last Sunday, in the cartoon section, appeared an...
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Client Wins Major Screenwriting Award
I received this note this week from my client Anita Skibski, who has been a member...
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The "Don't Quit!" Poem & Positive Grammar
THE "DON'T QUIT" POEM & POSITIVE GRAMMAR By Hal Womack 3-dan For some years I have...
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Capitalization: Mom, Dad
Greetings, A question about the capitalization or not of 'mom' & 'dad' has arisen...
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Everyone And Everybody. The Same Thing...
Hi, My girlfriend and I are entangled in a discussion of English usage. She is a...
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English Tornado: Memorial On Reading Station
Spotted a plaque on the outside wall of the bar on the main "down" platform at Reading...
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Some Things Are Just Plain Weird
Kansas woman spent 2 years sitting on boyfriend's toilet 11:06 AM CDT on Thursday...
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Shyamalan¹s Hollywood Horror Story
NYT June 2, 2008 Shyamalan¹s Hollywood Horror Story, With Twist By ALLISON HOPE WEINER...
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TV Reality Sets In
NYT December 9, 2007 You Couldn¹t Write This Stuff: TV Reality Sets In By EDWARD...
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Forgive Skip. He's In Mourning.
By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Arthur Schiff, who died of lung cancer...
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