D. A. Wood
Joined: November 7, 2011
Number of comments posted: 258
Number of votes received: 33
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Latest vs. Newest
“Latest Crew Blasts Off for the International Space Station”...
Molotov Cocktails
The blame here is on an American TV network that presented a...
“Much More Ready”
I just heard a British announcer say “much more ready” on TV...
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on: “all but” - I hate that expression!
Dear Philistine: I have had BRITISH people tell me that ...
on: “all but” - I hate that expression!
@Warsaw Will Warsaw Will says: @D.A.W. - I don't see why ...
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To Warsaw Will: You do not understand how newspapers opera...
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To: Warsaw Will: "It does so right now" would have been ung...
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Warsaw Will: I have a hard time understanding that the statu...
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I don't need a grammar book in English because my mother was...
on: “all but” - I hate that expression!
Oh, Warsaw Will, I agree with you emphatically. "With all ...
on: “Much More Ready”
Oh, we love SPECTRE. We watch James Bond OO7 movies on TV an...
on: “Much More Ready”
In the United States, we went straight from the word "airfie...
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"Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each ...
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I know that Asimov used the words "psychohistorian" and "enc...
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From www.dictionary,reference.com Contrarian - a person who...
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"Contraian" is a word that I have seen in novels, and especi...
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The original vacuum tube amplifiers used triodes, tubes with...
on: “Much More Ready”
It is true that: 1. Americans speak an older version of Eng...
on: “Much More Ready”
"A few mashed potatoes" means that Mrs. Jones looked into he...
on: “Much More Ready”
Sorry for my misspellings: I have trouble getting "Chomsky" ...
on: “Much More Ready”
Yes, Jeremy, this is me, the Dale Wood of Auburn, Georgia Te...
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Someone has disagreed and insisted that the language ALWAYS ...
on: “Much More Ready”
Someone diagreed with the affirmative, comparative, and supe...
on: “Much More Ready”
@tdcherry: That is beside the point. Bertrand Russell was cl...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Thank you, Warsaw Will, Yes, all of these are quite corr...
on: Resume, resumé, or résumé?
Résumé contains letters that are not in the English alphabet...
on: Abbreviation of “number”
We often just use the number sign # in North America. Why no...
on: -ic vs -ical
In the study of electricity, the words "electric" and "elect...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
You don't get it about the common rules of grammar among the...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
So you are unable to recognize the existence of language fam...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
As I have mentioned before, English does not exist in a vacu...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
“Your teenagers are more at risk while on their restricted ...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
Going back to the original line at the top of this section: ...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
These has been heard many times from news and "public affair...
on: Pronouncing “mandatory”
Hello: In American dictionaries, in the pronunciations,...
on: Pronouncing “mandatory”
There are many people, including foreigners and not, who do ...
on: Pronouncing “mandatory”
Hello: I agree that the word "mandate" usually has equal st...
on: Pronouncing “mandatory”
It is really reh-gu-la-tor-ee, with no particulatory emphasi...
on: Latest vs. Newest
How many hundreds of dictionaries have you read? ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
"Ensure" is never used in American English. It is consider...
on: Latest vs. Newest
You people of the British Isles forget so easily that if you...
on: On Tomorrow
A comment from above: "I'll return this report to you on to...
on: Complete Sentence
To some of you above: Verbs either express actions or states...
on: Complete Sentence
LOL, Porsche, this one of yours has a pleasant connotation: ...
on: Complete Sentence
This one is probably one word too long, but at dinnertime, m...
on: Complete Sentence
LOL, Porsche, "F-ing" is an abbreviation of a dirty America...
on: Latest vs. Newest
If you don't like any of the pages that I submitted, such as...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Wheeler, you have no idea what having a graduate degree from...
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Correction: beyond...
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@Jasper There is a very simple solution foy you: if you don...
on: Latest vs. Newest
@Warsaw Will To say that you use a nouns as a adjecive is s...
on: Latest vs. Newest
"Well I've never heard anybody use 'chose' for 'chosen'," ...
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@Jeremy: When you quote something, YOU are responsible for ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Furthermore, the Associated Press has its headquarters in Ne...
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"And who are these so-called 'lazy dog writers' who confuse...
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
I do not think that anyone else has written anything here ...
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
"A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" by Huddleston ...
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
Brus, from the study of German we come to realize that in th...
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
Oops - I used incorrect word order. One of my example senten...
on: “If I was” vs. “If I were”
In German, the subjunctive mood is alive and well, and peopl...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Jeremy, you have a way of making things EVEN WORSE when you ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Dates of Independence from the U.K. for selected places in...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Once again, Jeremy, you make comments that are beside the po...
on: Latest vs. Newest
You need to check again. Belize has been an independent coun...
on: “all but” - I hate that expression!
To: Rich: As we know, "Almost finished" and "Not finished" ...
on: Titled vs. Entitled
Once again, we see the case of a longer word taking the plac...
on: Pled versus pleaded
The small, metallic pyramidical cap on the very top of the W...
on: Pled versus pleaded
According to the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Appl...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Oops, DISCOVERY -- which was also the name of the huge spac...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Speaking of astronauts, the famous American astronaut Sally ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
We have places in the U,S,A, with quite similar names, but a...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Hi, there, Les, Please do look up "Middlesbrough" in www....
on: Latest vs. Newest
So, are you telling me that the people who live on Sark an...
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There is a highway tunnel underneath the Detroit River that ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
American and proud of it ! American spellings and proud of...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Oh, flogging: ENRON Corp, executives, sub-prime perpetrators...
on: Latest vs. Newest
More about Australia. I once read an article that said that ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
I read an interesting piece of Australian history from the 1...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Oh, suppose that Parliament passed a law that re-established...
on: Pled versus pleaded
As for the metallic chemical elements, watch out for alumi...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Nevertheless, Rickover had a lot of support in Congress, and...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Oh, nobody ever spells it "labratory" - except perhaps som...
on: Pled versus pleaded
The spell checker for Yahoo also does not know how to spell ...
on: Pled versus pleaded
Well, Ethan, people are supposed to be using spell checkers,...
on: Latest vs. Newest
To me, it is unbelievable that someone does not know that "m...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Like it or not, statutory law overrides common law in all ca...
on: Latest vs. Newest
The word "most" means "more than 50 percent". So, what are...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Where is it that British people live besides in England, Wal...
on: Latest vs. Newest
"The term "the late" meaning "the recently deceased" can't b...
on: Molotov Cocktails
If the Soviets/Russians ever launched a bombing attack that ...
on: Molotov Cocktails
Jeremy Wheeler is such a moron: "I hope that NORAD would ch...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Yes, yes, the acts of the the British House of Commons are t...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Wheeler, you don't know the difference between the British P...
on: Latest vs. Newest
The acts of the the British House of Commons are the Supreme...
on: Molotov Cocktails
North America = a familiar term for a continent that include...
on: Molotov Cocktails
"Petrol bomb" is slang in that it is not a bomb at all. Th...
on: Molotov Cocktails
"Jeremy Wheeler: Tangents? Not at all. I merely quoted your ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
You who say, "that noun is used as an adjective" are wrong. ...
on: Latest vs. Newest
AnWulf: I wonder why on Earth you want to argue with me rat...
on: Latest vs. Newest
The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) has exactly t...
on: Latest vs. Newest
Note, Jeremy, "US troops", "US Navy", "US elections", and "U...
on: Molotov Cocktails
To: Jeremy Wheeler Once again, you go flying off on tangent...
February 27, 2013, 1:25pm • 0 vote
on: “all but” - I hate that expression!
Something that happens "right now" happens at any instant of...