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Accepted spellings, punctuation, and capitalization of email
- October 14, 2010, 1:56pm
In formal writing, I still use "e-mail". "E-mail" at the beginning of a sentence.
Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
- October 1, 2010, 8:02am
Regarding "marijuana": you do pronounce the j... if you're speaking Spanish. But this is English! I pronounce it "marowana".
Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
- September 27, 2010, 2:28pm
OK, another: silent "i" in "lieu"
Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
- September 26, 2010, 11:23pm
As for Malaysia, it rhymes with Asia, which has no Y. Thus, it could be spelled "Malasia" and be pronounced the same. Ergo, the Y is silent.
And in my list, only "Le Febvre" is not English!
Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
- September 26, 2010, 11:20pm
Silent F, silent L:
halfpenny
How do I write out .25% ?
- September 26, 2010, 10:22am
"[zero] point two five percent".
It's wrong to say "[zero] point twenty five percent", since it has nothing to with the number 25.
Oh it’s... “Free”?
- September 25, 2010, 2:32pm
The use of quotes for emphasis is nonstandard, and frowned upon. But it's quite common on handwritten ads. As such, they're known as "grocers' quotes."
Can every letter be used as a silent letter?
- September 25, 2010, 2:24pm
A: cocoa
B: debt
C: scene
D: Wednesday (first d)
E: game (or any word with a silent e)
F: cliff (either one of the f's)
G: phlegm
H: hour
I: Hawaii
J: marijuana
K: knife
L: talk
M: mnemonic (first m)
N: autumn
O: leopard
P: psychic
Q: lacquer
R: Worcestershire (first r)
S: Arkansas
T: often (yup!)
U: gauge
V: Le Febvre
W: two
X: faux
Y: Malaysia
Z: rendezvous
Past tense of “text”
- February 22, 2010, 10:10am
Well, You are wrong
Difference between “lying” and “misleading”
It's also possible to mislead by telling the truth.