Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

I think both of the following are correct. However, the text book says the
first one is wrong.
(1) This led to many of the dishes cooked in a wrong order.
or

Hi. Can anyone tell me what do I call the facility that makes "car engine?"
Engine-producing facility is fine? is there ant one word for it?
Thanks for your help

Since we've just begun a new calendar year, I thought it would be fun to make a
quiz for the AUE to see how much I've taught you all during the past year.  I
am calling my quiz the "AUE Celebrity Superlative Quiz" because I will ask
everyone to take this quiz and, for each question, ...

A word game.
It may have other names, but I know it as "Croaks" -- takes its name
from this sentence:
"I'm dying," he croaked.

Hi! Im looking for a program or website that teaches writing paragraphs and
eassays, but I would like to have one where the student can practice writing
and get some feed back, or even better, correction of style, grammer, and
punctuion. Does anyone know of such a website or ...

Just a quickie. Which is the correct form:
Two pair of trousers
OR
two pairs or trousers.

Now I would have called the highly painful red swelling on my butt a
boil, but the doctor tells me it's an abscess. I had thought that word
was restricted to infected areas near the teeth. I don't find enough
information on the three words in my dictionaries or in Encarta to

How do you normally ask a question about the CAPITALIZED part of that
sentence in these cases (marine area). I hesitate between these
alternatives:
This diver carries out UNDERWATER repair work.

Nobody needs to respond, "Hey, London!"
I know I have to dial 44, but do I leave off the 0 on the area code or
do I dial it?

After months and years of deliberation, I am leaving. Yes, I know
that I have said that five times before, but this time I really
mean it. I won't be coming back. I know I have said that four
times before, but I'm serious this time. Really.

I'm not sure that the family and followers of the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., would like this: Howard Dean's "concession" speech after the
Iowa caucuses (held, coincidentally, on Martin Luther King Day) is now
being called "I Have a Scream." (Dr. King's most famous speech is ...

I'm quite good at English, but I cannot understand at all the paragraph
under from a post by Sebastian Hew.
"I really fail to see the point. Are the examples of 'phoque English' you
post really so egregious? One meets with solecistic usage of English, from

For example,
"Go to the store," he said
"I told him to go to the store," John said.
What is the subject here?  The he or John said, or something else?

At a meeting in Mexico this past week, George Bush told Scott Reid,
top aide to Canadian PM Paul Martin that he had a "pretty face." I was
surprised that Bush would describe a male as "pretty." Is this a
common designation  for males in Texas?

"Certainly he retains the intention perhaps...."
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