From today's US News Bulletin (a daily email I receive): begin quote In his speech...

I was just reading the first transcript that I've been able to find of the entire...

recently i've been enchanted by Arabian Nights and Sir Richard Burton's baroque translation...

I know that we tend to be a lot less formal and euphemistic in our speech nowadays...

I normally say "an herb" or "an honor", where the is commonly dropped. Before most...

How did such accent come about?!! Only a backwardly hierarchal society like the aristocracy...

The recent AUE discussions about the pronunciation of the consonants in a word like...

There has been much discussion in Usenet of the peculiarity of speech shown by some...

This derives from the discussion that I had with Mike Lyle concerning 'incredible...

By Old English, I mean words in modern use whose roots are in pre-Norman English...

1. Are we there yet? 2. Aren't we there yet? Aren't they interchangeable, depending...

As a student of Language and Linguistics, I find all of the discussions here to be...

From President Bush's brief speech today: "Now he will face the justice he denied...

Dear all, What do you think of the construction "a not unintelligent man"? I know...

Yesterday I watched the Queen's speech and heard her say ('tra:nspo:t) for "transport...

Dear all, My son is going to take part in a storytelling contest. He is going to...

Hello, There's been a little debate fired in another newsgroup with an innocent question...

What is the longest and least coherent sentence ever written and published in English...

Okay, this is a question that must have been asked to death, but I haven't found...

Does anybody know at what point in the history of English (in England) it became...