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gifting vs. giving a gift

  • December 14, 2017, 11:03pm

More examples, some using "gifted" as an adjective, but some using "gifted" as part of a passive verb.

On Tomorrow

  • November 9, 2017, 7:25pm

@ Chrissy

Since you are college educated at least get the facts straight:

http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/random-thoughts-about-on-tomorrow.html

Impact as a noun

  • October 1, 2017, 9:04am

However "impacted" as an adjective seems to retain its original physical meaning:

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22impacted%22&tbm=bks&lr=lang_en&dcr=0&gbv=1&sei=f67QWfamMsf_8gXuo6rQDA

@HS There is a long article on "wh" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_%E2%9F%A8wh%E2%9F%A9

I do remember being taught to pronounce "whether" as "hwether" at primary school in the 1950's ( SE England) ; but when I started work, I dropped it as being too affected and snobby. Technically though, "wh" is a digraph like "th" and "ch" and "ph".

@AC That seems about right; but perhaps someone will come up with an exception. Maybe I am wrong here, but are there not dialects (perhaps Somerset?) where there is some kind of an "r" sound (non-trilled) at the end of a word?