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This is a great site. You can get a free text version as well. Thanks for finding it. I've sent the link to my girls and some of their friends as they are all studying for college enterance exams.

Scott... I was rolling and thinking of you when I heard this one last night!!
The entire monologue is one of the best on SNL in a long time but the part that is for this thread is starts at the...

Okay... my mom wants help with this one.... Robin... it sounds as if you might know the answer???





ANYONE??? even if it's not Robin :D

I love being pedantic :-) . It could be ironic depending on situation![/quote]
quartztwo! Welcome to MasterRussian!!

My daughter's English teacher uses the song Ironic by Alanis Morissette when...

I figured I would swing this over to this thread....

Yes! IMHO, most people use "out loud" because they don't know any better but according to the article, it just might be the location I am in!
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So, I do a number of dumb phonetic mistakes..... but this is won I don't do and I thought it was funny... a friend of mine posted it on FaceBook...

"for those of you who don't know Cheri and Rick...

yup, yup, yup... add to that list... choose and chose, shoot and shot! I have to think every time about these!!!

Interesting wiki about the intrusive R. I never knew it had a technical name!...

I had not heard this one in YEARS!!! The newscaster on the radio today said it and I was like "No way!!!" I believe it is pronounced this way in the New York area which may be why I have not heard it...

I wish I new what the game is but thank you anyway. :)
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Oh, the I post something and you find the perfect challenge to it!!! http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sign/sign0020.gif

If you look at the second article you linked...



I believe that when I use can not and when President Lincoln used it, we are/were, both using it as "some people argue that can not must be used...

It is interesting as this is one of the FEW things I actually remember from school!! This one and maybe vs. may be.

I wonder if it is a case of this distinction being phased out? As one of the...

Is there a difference between "I cannot dig" and "I can not dig"?

It would be very convenient if there was the same difference there as between "I am not able to dig" and "I am able not to dig"...

Cannot, can not & can not only - when to use each:

I noticed that a number of people are using "can (space) not" when they should be using cannot (or can't). I had a thread about this back in...

Next one... "near miss" I heard this one on the radio again this morning and even though from my research about the phrase it seems to actually be "acceptable" to use this expression... I still...

There's a reason there are sentences which begin with 'there' or would you rather have this as "A reason is, sentences are, which begin with 'there'"?

Robin



"There's a reason there are...

So, our dear Master Admin posted "There were a man and a woman sitting on the bench."

That just did not "sit" right with me. I was thinking, should it be "There was a man..." ? I really didn't...

Robin, you just had a typo with the "." for the p.m., she had the first "." and was missing the second one.

I also just did not like the wording "of the proceeds for the festival" I probably would...

I know, one should never throw stones in glass houses...

The following was taken from an email I received today (it was also sent to 31 other people!). The author is in her late 40's or mid-50's...

Maybe I wasn't clear enough as it is used all the time and what made me think of this was Olya's posting in the movie thread..

Next item up for discussion! Ordinal Numbers and enumeration! First, second, third.. Firstly, secondy and thirdly... First, secondly, thirdly??? Is it British vs. American yet again, an idiom?

Two...

Okay gang....let me know what you think of this one... Record vs. Recording

I've seen a number of Russians use this one like this:
"I'll make a record for you," or "I'll make a new record,"...

Okay folks... I first tried to post this around 7:30 a.m. my time and one of two things must have happened...the little gremlins don't like me picking on Robin OR they don't like my sense of humor as...

Dearest, are you always this logical? Your teacher and parents, what on earth did they do with you as a child? How many teachers are now wearing little white jackets and are in padded cells? And I...

Well I think that sounds a bit uneducated...[/quote]
...and none of the other ones from that list sound odd or a bit silly to you? :D

So Robin... if ancient history is a no go for you...than what about "past history?"




Jay, Welcome to MR and YES, newbies are most welcome to chime in here! About your thoughts, you had me...