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goossun
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February 12, 2004
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More than a pain in the English!
- February 27, 2004, 8:46am
 
Speedwell
Tanx f' da link! How the hell did you find it? I've still got difficulties to make sense of many of them.
Pronounciation of TH+S
- February 17, 2004, 1:10pm
 
Dear Adam 
The kind of D you are talking about I guess have nothing to do with the sound of TH in English. Because I do believe the TH stuff comes from Indo-European roots. i.e. Mithra in Indian. It sounds like Arabic TH. i.e. tholth= 1 third.
The so-called "soft D" in the Norse languages sound more like L while tongue touches the lower front teeth. i.e. gade= street in Danish. I say that from my experience, that lots of foreigners pronounce the soft D as an L when speaking Danish. Danish doesn't have a letter for it
Weird name
- February 17, 2004, 12:50pm
 
Dear Adam 
The kind of D you are talking about I guess have nothing to do with the sound of TH in English. Because I do believe the TH stuff comes from Indo-European roots. i.e. Mithra in Indian. It sounds like Arabic TH. i.e. tholth= 1 third.
The so-called "soft D" in the Norse languages sound more like L while tongue touches the lower front teeth. i.e. gade= street in Danish. I say that from my experience, that lots of foreigners pronounce the soft D as an L when speaking Danish. Danish doesn't have a letter for it whereas Icelandic does.
Posessive aspostrophes
- February 16, 2004, 12:28pm
 
Right you are. You just add an apostrophe to the end of the word when it ends with S, I do believe.  
I'm learning Danish now and there is a bigger problem there, that is in Danish possessive form of name is i.e. Robert + s; without apostrophe. So Danes have problem writing the possessive form of Rasmus which is the name of many of the Danes.
People(s)
- February 12, 2004, 12:34pm
 
It may clarify the question. 
We never say "People is..." We always say "People are..." 
Besides, many of dictionaries say "plural: people
". See Longman for example. Or check this out:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=people
Questions
| People(s) | February 10, 2004 | 
| Gerund and Present Participle | February 12, 2004 | 
| Pronounciation of TH+S | February 16, 2004 | 
| Weird name | February 16, 2004 | 
| Any reference? | February 17, 2004 | 
| un/ir | February 17, 2004 | 
| Have/halve | February 18, 2004 | 
| More than a pain in the English! | February 26, 2004 | 
| 00′s | March 3, 2004 | 
| - | March 25, 2004 | 
| S | April 14, 2004 | 
| Term | April 14, 2004 | 
| 114 | April 19, 2004 | 
| Who’s this Joe? | April 19, 2004 | 
| Following the Joe | April 23, 2004 | 
| English schools | April 26, 2004 | 
| Gerontophile? | April 28, 2004 | 
| Semtex | April 29, 2004 | 
| Isn’t it odd? | May 6, 2004 | 
| ir | May 9, 2004 | 
| G-string | May 9, 2004 | 
| Be-martyred | May 10, 2004 | 
| Oral vs. Aural | May 11, 2004 | 
| ta-ta & ho-ho | May 15, 2004 | 
| Para | June 1, 2004 | 
| Am I L-deaf? | June 9, 2004 | 
| Punctuation | June 13, 2004 | 
| P & K | June 15, 2004 | 
| ...t you | June 18, 2004 | 
| F word | June 18, 2004 | 
| negating | June 21, 2004 | 
| The | June 22, 2004 | 
| Pawshop | July 2, 2004 | 
| Lacking Smell | July 2, 2004 | 
| At or in | July 8, 2004 | 
| Y2K | July 12, 2004 | 
| Example | July 23, 2004 | 
| Looking for a word | July 29, 2004 | 
| OK | July 29, 2004 | 
| ab | August 26, 2004 | 
| Mixing | October 1, 2004 | 
| Fuff | October 1, 2004 | 
| V-cards | November 1, 2004 | 
| Bios | December 6, 2004 | 
| Hairy | December 11, 2004 | 
| Ya’ese | December 11, 2004 | 
| BCC | December 12, 2004 | 
| Films | December 26, 2004 | 
| all | December 31, 2004 | 
| Credit card | January 6, 2005 | 
| B4 Dickens | January 14, 2005 | 
| L | January 30, 2005 | 
| Joke | June 19, 2005 | 
| Dick & Bob | July 26, 2007 | 
| Frowing | October 12, 2007 | 
| Head shot | October 19, 2007 | 



					
00′s
What are those "few examples" Adam?