Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007

An item from the BBC, about a protest at how little dairy farmers are
paid for milk:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/6313777.stm
(quote from Gloucestershire farmer)

Soon after I posted a link to a list of several synonyms of
"penis" today, ( http://namingschemes.com/Penis_Synonyms ),
I happened to see yet another word for it in the current
issue of _The Week_ (page 8).  It's in a discussion of Matt

My wife is an EFL student and she posed a question to me I could not
answer.  She was asked to render the following sentences in reported
speech, included with her answers and the teacher's corrections:
Q1: "I didn't know that you wanted me to come over."

I have become Marius.  Instead of taking in paragraphs and pages when
I read, I'm looking phrases and sentences and wondering if they are
right.  Or grammatical.  Or idiomatic.  
I'm currently reading "A Short History of Tractors In Ukrainian" by

Please help me with edit/rewrite if you think I should do that this
letter which is going to be sent to my landloard. The person who lives
under my apt is bangging on the floor when I am in Kitchen area when I
wash my dishes.. I do not know why but he really scars me. Please help ...

While working on my website today, i had to write:
“above: This is called smotherbox↗.”
  — http://xahlee.org/sl/tor.html
and also:

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The first OED citation of "malapropism" is from 1830  and the term
comes from the character in Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. What word
would Sheridan have used to decribe this type of mistake? Also, seeing
that there were several malaproprian characters in Shakespeare's play,

Im building a site where I offer users to signup for a news letter.  English
is not my first language, so I need some advice which one of the bellow is
right?
Sign up to our news letter to receive latest headlines about new products,

I have an electrical device with two outputs A and B. (It does not matter
what this device is, and I don't want to blind you with science). I have
been given the task of calculating the change of accuracy of output A when
electrical loads are connected to both A and B. Output A ...

From the BBC "Have your say" website,
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=5353&&&edition=1&ttl=200701
24170744
"Catholic leaders in the UK say their adoption agencies will not place
children with homosexual couples in defiance of new anti-discrimination

(9/11 Israeli Spy Scandal - FOX NEWS 4 Part Series Dec. 2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAoe26Ma
SOMEONE MUST TRANSLATE  THIS INTO FRENCH TO PUT ON YOUTUBE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FOX+Israel&search=Search

i'm always trying to decide which of the following phrases to use
when i want to refer to a more detaied discussion of something in a
later chapter:
1) For reasons discussed more in Chapter,

Why is the position called Attorney General and not General Attorney?
This is not French, where the adjective goes AFTER the noun.

What's that thing between 'attorney' and 'client' in 'attorney-client
privilege'?  Normally, where a noun phrase serves as an adjective, it has
a hyphen; and there's a hyphen in 'army-navy store' (which means 'army-
and-navy store').  But here 'attorney-and-client privilege' seems ...