Interesting Article From The AUE's First...
"The centre/center question is a good example of why this is difficult. "Center"...
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The Ame 'O' Sound
I've noticed on American-oriented dictionaries/wordlists dotted about the WWW that...
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It Took 20 Yrs But...
OK, it took 20 years, but today I had a revelation. The fact that it took 20 yrs...
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Hortense
I've tested all of the links in the Resources (Categorized Links) file at my Web...
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Ah = Ar, Aw = Or, Aw =/= Ah / Ar
Where I come from, good old England (north), these equalities hold. However, when...
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Pooberty
I just heard Scott Simon (obTWIAVBP: American radio host) say "puberty" as POOberty...
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Common Usage
In another thread here, there was constant reference to the fact that certain words...
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American D For T
priddy, wadder, etc. Can anyone point me to some advice, techniques, and so on, for...
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Using The Comma Correctly Is Often A Matter...
[link] Using the comma correctly is often a matter of tempo Not long ago I ended...
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Largest English Speaking Nation.
The leaders of India would do well to attempt to make everyone fluent in English...
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Pronunciation Of "Robin Hood"
I happened to catch an old Warner Bros. cartoon, from the 'Forties I'm guessing,...
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A Puzzling Apostrophe.
The word "wanna" is one of those nonstandard terms (like "ain't") which has a standard...
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Pronunciation Of 'Forte' (Italian-Derived...
The various pronunciations of "forte" have been discussed before in these newsgroups...
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What Nationality Have The Best Foriegn...
What nationality have the best foriegn accent when speaking English. I've personally...
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Use Translation Software On Book Publishing
Commercial translation software technologies are getting better and better. Today...
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040507 1637Z
Various writers have commented on the strange results that occur when British authors...
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Google Friendship Redux
Wikipedia is now first when I Google 'jew' and Jewwatch second. Doing the search...
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The Royal And Episcopal Plural.
When executing formal documents, the UK queen writes in the plural "We, Elizabeth...
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Rising Inflection In Questions..
Hi all. A statement in English can be implied to be a question by speaking with a...
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Pronounciation Of Mobile
When talking about the 'mobile phone', I have always pronounced the word 'mobile...
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