Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Is it correct, that 'piggy banking' can be used, when people are betting on
others to do their job? Or is it following the others without contributing
to the work? Or both, or something else :) ?

Hi there and Happy New year all :)
I think one of my new year resolutions is to improve my English. I started
to last year but it kinda tapered off... lol I am mostly going to be
learning from web sites and places like this :) I was thinking of maybe

Tuscany.

Drunk

[Posted by Mark Brader on behalf of Donna Richoux during her absence.]
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Care to comment on the presence and effect of SHE in the following,
pls?
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The realty woman, with her lipstick on her teeth and her powder and

"Thank you for your custom."
Is the above considered valid/good usage of the word "custom", when
trying to say: "Thank you, customer, for buying stuff from my retail
outlet"?

Overheard by a confectionery vending machine...
"I was going to buy some chocolate but I only have two pound coins".
I wondered exactly what the person meant. Did they have several coins
of the £2 variety or exactly two of the £1 sort - two pound-coins or

Yeah, not, for once, Jan Sand's Manhattan.
I finally watched Scorsese's *Gangs of New York* last night.[1]
Several times in the dialogue reference is made to having "sand", with
the meaning of "guts"/"balls"/"bottle"/"backbone"/"right stuff".

Some time ago, while waiting for an endlessly delayed train, I thought to
myself 'This train will have been being waited for for two hours'. I then
realised I had unintentionally used the future passive imperfect in a
sentence. Any thoughts about whether it's grammatically correct? ...

Anybody give a hint what day the "Twelveth Night" will occur?
 I hear that in England it is "compulsory" to get your christmas
 decorations down on 12th night!  Is it evening of 6 january,
 Ephiphany / three kings?

I'm really not happy with the definitions that I've seen
for sentences, main clauses and subordinate clauses.
The problems:
(i) The idea that a sentence is a clause that expresses

I'm looking for an English usage website: the sort that will tell me
the difference between, for example, backward and backwards.
Any recommendations?
Thank you very much,

In the sentence:
And I know it's good idea to eat five times a day if you're cutting  
(massing too?).
Assuming the sentence is OK (or O.K. or okay ;), because I'm sure you'll  

what does it mean?
like in Michael Nitabach's post
(b14000268b3b35e803f3cea76902f45d@news.teranews.com):
"Same here. Shall we generate an action plan to spool up everyone else and