Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2003

How should this sentence read:
"I do not know [who, whom] to follow."
May I have a grammatical reason for your answer?
Many thanks, Dan

I was depressed thaT DCB Pierre won the Man Booker Prize with Vernon
God Little partly because the extracts I'd read seemed badly written
and partly because it was the latest in a series of non-British wins
voted by British juries, making me suspicious that we're suffering

Has anyone any idea when the word 'edgy' began to be used in the sense
'daring, provocative, or trend setting'
(sense 3 in American heritage Dictionary)
Is this an American usage only or is it also used in British English?

I am looking for an algorithm to that will check a string of letters
and determine if could be an English word. A dictionary look up is not
satisfactory because the word could be a name or an abbreviation. For
example, the algorithm would fail zpo but pass zop.

I can't quite place it.
What is it exactly ?

In the sentense "The technology shakeout has decimated dotcoms" what does
mean dotcoms please

"[...] if [al-Qaeda] could cause another catastrophic event, a tragedy
like 9/11, if they could do that again, if they could get their hands
on weapons of mass destruction and make it 10,000, not 3,000, they
would do that, and not just in the United States but in any of the

Can anyone tell me the origin of the phrase "Bodies in Motion and at
Rest"?
I had thought it was came from Newton's laws -- but as far as I can
determine the law in question doesn't actually employ the phrase:

DSH, where are you?

In the following fake conversation (where B adds to a sentence uttered
by A):
  Speaker A: none of the boxes are empty
  Speaker B: which doesn't matter to us now

Could anyone help me select the best variant of the phrase to be put on a
banner. The context is to advertise custom software development services for
the software companies that need an up-to-date graphical user interface in
their applications:

Here's something I had to read twice:
    Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 cable operator behind Comcast, is....
That's from the current _Newsweek_.  Now, to me, that immediately sounds
like Comcast is number n, and TWC is number n+2.  But I'm fairly certain

You might have read in the newspapers (or here, since someone brought
it up) about the poor lady that was trampled by a herd of shoppers at
a Wal-Mart in Orange City, Florida.  The plucky shopper still managed
to hold onto her $28.00 DVD player while being transported to the

Roadsign: Daytona Beach Int'l. Airport.
Does that <Int'l.> have one thingy too many?
(Hi, Coop. At the junction of I-4 with I-95, I favored your direction with an
aueic wave.)

Yes, I have heard this expression from native Englishmen a few times: "She's
well stacked!" I know that they mean she has big tits, but stacked?
I thought that the word "stacked" meant piled up vertically. For example,
"stacked antennas" are one above the other on the same mast. ...