D. A. Wood
Joined: November 7, 2011
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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”
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The notion that elephants are terrified by mice (or by any o...
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"goooofy says: "The idea that we should consider how thing...
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Perfect Pedant, I agree completely: The whole expression "...
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Not so! Words that are both nouns and adjectives are really ...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
So, "English is full of exceptions."? Well, let's endeavor...
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Jaspar, et al, When it comes to our language, this certainly...
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There is no such thing as "US English". We always call it "A...
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To: EnglishKnight1 If you click on my name (in the red lett...
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Jeremy Wheeler, you have no understanding of the notion of e...
on: Molotov Cocktails
It has become all too easy for journalists to simply MAKE CO...
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Correction: no way to live a life...
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I agree whole hearedtly with the following: "Popular? One...
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The word "one" is singular by definition, and so is any word...
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Fallacious thinking raises its ugly head again: "If the f...
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Note: "Strict adherence to the rule of pronoun-antecedent ag...
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on: Capitalizing After the Colon
Ha - ha: "Capitalization is never used, under any circumstan...
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The gross overuse of semicolons in one of those strange arti...
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There is a more significant difference between Chinese (and ...
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Oh, Chinese vs. English. There are some HUGE differences be...
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A fab American singer (from California) named "Weird Al" Yan...
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To: English Knight 1 You ought to read about the Austrian ...
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The American author Isaac Asimov, who was a biochemist, visi...
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Oh, well, English Knght 1, I did leave one possibility open ...
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Of course, since I have earned my M.A. in mathematics, I thi...
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I will kind you about my first name. It is "Dale", and in th...
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Oh, I am sorry to hear. English Knight 1, that you have had ...
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"But fighting for great precision of words is such a meaning...
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To: English Knight 1 You clearly have no idea who any of th...
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I recently heard a news report on a major TV network in the ...
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Note that for quite a long time, the three-letter symbol for...
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To EnglishKnight: Wood, when you speak to a man " Hey, babe...
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Acronyms from G.I. (soldier's) slang of World War II: (and b...
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Hello. There are several good Web sites that are available t...
on: Latest vs. Newest
There is also a lot of difference between the language of ca...
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"latest" means "the most recent" must be strictly British En...
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Some verbs with "contact", in alphabetical order: break ...
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Alas, we need to go into the realm of science and technology...
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"As per" is also used by would-be chrome domes who do not kn...
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I believe that I have heard Australians overusing "as per", ...
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I agree: "Sometimes used to make the statement sound more im...
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In statements like these about "topography", the writers are...
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Some of you are having trouble with the word "always". "Lan...
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I stand corrected: NotAGrammarSnob is a woman. (I used "he" ...
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You ought to read a lot about advances in the understanding ...
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goofy and no added salt. You are nuts if you think all of t...
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Goofy, if you think this: " Again, math and physics are irr...
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Textbooks on Euclidean geometry are full of descriptions of ...
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Well, that might be because you have been studying in the wr...
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I think that I should put this on my list of "Things to Do",...
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I recently complained to the source of an article about the ...
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By the way, I contributed the whole topic of Molotov cockt...
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Perfect Pedant "Probably read from the back of a cereal b...
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READY to do some basic algebra: Given three real numbers a,...
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To: NotAGrammarSnob CORRECT! Someone or something is eith...
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Perfect Pedant Unaware of the world outside of the U.S.A....
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Definition: Scotland: a remote and isolated place in the N...
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The darned thing refused to do my table as I commanded it to...
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Hi, AnWulf, I whole-heartedly agree with you: "Unless a p...
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Scots who don't want to learn anything about, "If A, then B,...
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Hairy Scot, When you gripe about someone's use of a larg...
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Hairy Scott, just because your vocabulary is not so large, a...
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Porsche, what makes you such an expert on the United States?...
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Nobody here pays any attention to "petrol" unless they serve...
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Sorry, I mistyped. One of the trios was supposed to be few, ...
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Good for the phrase to have died off, for practical purposes...
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Correction of a typo" For example, in a plane, any ideal ...
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goofy: You are not very scientific, are you? Mathematics ...
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Hello, I thought that I was being clear when I stated "Ameri...
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So -- Accidence: chance, unforeseen or unexpected eventualit...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
In English, we need to either create a singular sexless pron...
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Calling "Webster's Third International Dictionary" "Webster'...
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"The dictionary therefore one of American English, not prope...
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1. "Times" - British 2. General purpose comment: Just bec...
on: Pronouncing “mandatory”
Oh, yes it is pretentious, and the point of view is that som...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
I will just leave it up to you to look up when "Webster's" c...
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Repeating: There isn't any such thing as a "Webster's public...
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"it does sound a bit strange." NO, not so. It sounds and lo...
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
Like it or not, several other companies publish Webster's di...
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Listen up! "Webster's" or "Webster's Dictionary" is NOT a co...
on: Repeated
In other kinds of situations, we would say that a diamond wa...
on: Repeated
Yes, it is the idiomatic way of saying things in English....
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We get the messsage, "Your comment is successfully posted. T...
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Living beings such as Andorrans can have living antennae, ...
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Living beings such as Andorrans can have living antennae, ...
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Pronouncing "mandatory". Hairy Scott, I agree with you 10...
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LOL, double vowells! In North America, we have disposed of...
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When you are typing in German and you are lacking umlauts, e...
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Oh, well, I was born in 1954, back when TV was still a new t...
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SCOTTISH ? I read an article recently concerning developm...
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Hi, Katie, I agree: That one is astonishingly bad! ...
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It is interesting that we see that "ge" prefix on the past p...
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"AP Stylebook says NEVER use the colloquial term pled." ...
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Please look at this news headline carefully Italy are bet...
July 25, 2012, 12:07pm • 0 vote
on: Use of “their” as a genderless singular?
Furthermore, when we say something like, "Let elephants tram...