Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

For a while I have be using coöperate (.. above the second 'o' if that
does not come out) and the like for words that might normally be
hypenated, as I prefer it.
I was just now writing 'reinforced' in an essay, and was wondering

Does
"Yes, next Wednesday as ever is."
mean
"Yes, it is indeed on Wednesday?"

I'm posting this because I thought it might be interesting to linguists
to see some "real time word morphing"...
In Texas last November, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs ran as the Republican
candidate to replace disgraced congressman Tom DeLay.  Due to the DeLay

I have a question about the following sentence:
"To apply, submit an ORS application and a separate application for MSc
admission, and provide references that will be used for both MSc
admission and ORS selection."

In general opinion, what is a smaller component of a contract: an
article or a section? In other words, is an article a part of a
subsection/section, or is a section part of an article?
Also, is a paragraph a part of an article?

I wonder if
"the ladder crumbled behind them"
is a known idiom.
Also, what's the exact meaning of "to come across?" in the 2nd part

Canute.   Knut.  Cnut.
An ancient king of this isle remembered for lashing the waves.  A lesser
known feat was his digging of the "Tigris River" from Rotherhithe to
Chelsea.

BBC Radio News. 'he was left stranded when his yacht capsized 1000 miles
out to sea'. Surely 'stranded' is the very last thing he could be in
that situation?

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I've read that there are two functions to punctuation: ensuring clear
and unambiguous communication, and to convey intonation and style of
speaking so that the reader "hears" the words the way the writer
intended. I'm trying to better learn the second part. I've linked to a

My foreskin that is, I'm uncut... and what did I see?
A big, throbbing purple head the size of a baseball, glistening with
precum ready to be shoved up some willing (or unwilling) guy's a.s.
Who's ready for it?

Five years ago I said in this company:

with sucking a cock once in a while.Ernie
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Here is a test question. I was wondering if another answer will do.
... I chose neither of my first quick solutions. Instead, I told myself
only when I faced this unexpected obstacle head-on could I be the
victor. Then I closed my eyes to still my quaking limbs. I took a deep

Thinking of "subdivisions" (which I hyphenated incorrectly as
"sub-divisions") makes me wonder about that word.  Sub-divisions of
what?
Basically, a developer purchases a large tract of land and divides