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| bio | website | Donthaveone |
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| location | Denmark | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Dec 2 '11 at 22:45 | |
| stats | profile views | 29 |
Intelligent, often irreverent and irrepressible.
The I's have it.
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Jul 17 |
answered | Do Americans understand Donald Duck? |
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Jul 15 |
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Which is correct: “soda” or “pop”? I've always called it a soda (being from Connecticut) unless I was up in New Hampshire visiting my grandparents; then it was called a 'tonic'. |
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Jul 8 |
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Meaning of a quote in movie Casino Royale (2006) @Udayan the term is 'latter' not 'later'. It means the second of two mentioned 'things' - in this case a dinner jacket. 'Former' refers to the first dinner jacket. As far as 'there are dinner jackets, and then there are dinner jackets' - it's comparing the quality of the item. One could also say, 'There are cars, and then there are cars.' One could be a Yugo, the other a Ferrari - normally speaking the Ferrari is of much higher quality and LOOKS nicer. They're both cars, to be sure - but which one would you rather be seen in? |
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Jul 4 |
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What do you call someone who chooses to stay single for life? @UpTheCreek a confirmed bachelor is someone who chooses to remain single - it doesn't mean they don't have relationships (see George Clooney), however they don't marry. Unfortunately, as has been noted, there are no comparable words for single women which aren't derogatory - 'confirmed bachelorette' hasn't quite yet caught on. |
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Jun 30 |
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Occupation vs. Job vs. Employment vs. Profession @Pavium yes, yes it is. |
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Jun 30 |
answered | Occupation vs. Job vs. Employment vs. Profession |
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Jun 21 |
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American pronunciation of “professor” and “law” I'm also a cot/caught person, but I don't see a 'pout' between law and school when I say them? |
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Jun 19 |
answered | Should I put a definite article before a scientific term? |
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Jun 19 |
answered | Meaning of “hail from” |
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Jun 18 |
answered | How many of the “Top 10 favorite British words” are understood by Americans? |
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Jun 18 |
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Is there a rule in British English about how to pronounce “either”? I'll use either pronunciation - it depends on the context of the sentence. |
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Jun 18 |
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Is there a difference between the pronunciation of a teenager, and the pronunciation of an adult? It also depends on whether or not the teenager is local to the area; many people take weekends on Long Island - and a NYC accent is different from a Jersey accent, and so forth. |
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Jun 18 |
answered | Are “betwixt”, “trebble”, etc., acceptable in American English? |
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Jun 13 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 13 |
answered | “someone nodded abstractly” |
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Jun 13 |
answered | In the sentence “Each time you sleep with someone, you also sleep with his past,” what does “past” mean? |
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Jun 11 |
answered | What word describes interpreting evidence in such a way as to reach a desired conclusion? |
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Jun 9 |
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What is it called phonetically, when Americans change the pronunciation of “pronunciation” to “pro-*noun*-ciation”? I've noticed something similar with Danish speakers. The word for vikings is vikinger, which is pronounced with a VEE sound, yet when they go to pronounce 'vikings' in English it becomes (more often than not) WHYkings. |
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Jun 9 |
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Is it appropriate to call a British person a “Brit”? @Malvolio as a New Englander, to me a Yankee doesn't mean someone from Maine, it's just another word for a New Englander. People from Maine are known as Maniacs. |
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Jun 9 |
answered | Is there an English word meaning “snacks eaten as an accompaniment while drinking alcohol”? |
