goofy
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on: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and BBC News
Porsche, I'm not sure if Sri Lanka is Sanskrit for "beautifu...
on: Past tense of “text”
Porsche, I know that the "nucular" pronunciation is disappro...
on: Past tense of “text”
According to Merriam-Webster, the nucular pronunciation is i...
on: Fora vs Forums
The OED has a citation for "forums" from 1647, and no citati...
on: I’ve got a punctuation Jones
The Oxford Companion to the English Language page 75: the...
on: Younger vs. youngest
Amazed might be interested to know that the superlative of t...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
I don't see how your job is relevant to how a certain word i...
on: Me Versus I
Meg, Perhaps you should look at the "This is she" vs. "This...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
For what it's worth, the current edition -- the Fourth -- of...
on: Fora vs Forums
And the words "chum", "hum", "sum" and "um" should hencefort...
on: Only then can we know
Yes they are grammatical. And no, they're not passive....
on: Impact as a noun
The world did not impact upon me until I got to the Post Off...
on: Exact same
I think Porsche is probably right. And fusthustler is wro...
on: injecting swear words
I think "a whole nother story" is tmesis. My favourite examp...
on: If or not
From Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionar of English Usage: ...
on: I versus Me
No, I don't think that we would "all do what we want" withou...
on: Exact same
It's possible that it is an adverb in this context. Not all ...
on: “It is I” vs. “It is me”
OK, my examples from Marlowe and Fletcher are usages that Ky...
on: “It is I” vs. “It is me”
Kyle, The prescription that nominative pronouns must be use...
on: Amount of people
I didn't say that "water" and "sand" are countable nouns. Th...
on: Amount of people
It's not a problem of being unable to distinguish between co...
on: “This is she” vs. “This is her”
Then why do I never say "That's I"? When am I supposed to...
on: “This is she” vs. “This is her”
If we follow the prescription that we must use nominative (o...
on: Me vs. I
"What I did say is that being understandable does not make s...
on: Me vs. I
"Since when is understandability a criterion for proper gram...
on: Me vs. I
1a "Me arrived safely." 1b "Alice, Tom and me arrived safel...
on: Me vs. I
OK, how about this: Our contingent to the convention, Ali...
on: Me vs. I
either one....
on: Me vs. I
They have provided no evidence of contacting I. This is d...
on: as best he can
"It seems to me that they really intend to suggest that the ...
on: pronunciation of th
Adam O: "And it's also found in Arabic, Persian, Hindustani ...
on: The Toronto Maple Leafs
er, ok, anyway... "Maple Leafs" is an exocentric compound li...
on: “This is she” vs. “This is her”
Scott, why are you using Latin as an example? Lots of peo...
March 3, 2009, 2:15pm • 2 votes
on: Sleep / Asleep
Etymologically, the "a-" in "asleep" comes from "on". The OE...