Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2007

I undestand that a semicolon is used to seperate two main clauses connected
by a conjunctive adverb (such as however, consequently, therefore, hence
etc).
This rule makes perfect sense to me in the folowing example:

I keep hearing TV announcers using the expression "between ---- to -----".
For example:  "between 30 to 50" - rather than "between 30 and 50" or "from
30 to 50"
I know that it is futile to protest against change in English usage, and we

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Languages which are popular,widely read and spoken.
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Look at the bottom three items on this donut image. What are the
round balls to the left and right of the cinnamon roll called?
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Donuts-Posters_i338009_.htm

A. "I heard Sue met a perfect guy and getting married this fall."
Before asking help, I want to let you know I am not a native English
speaker.
Anyway, I was asked to rewrite sentence A , doing nothing with the

I'm trying to make sense (geographically) of the refrain from Kipling's "On
the Road to Mandalay", which I remember as a stirring song sung by Peter
Dawson. The words are:
On the road to Mandalay,

The other day I was trying to remember the name of a chicken place I
went to years ago in Montreal, and the search turned up a bunch of
PFKs (KFC in Francophone places), which through some curiosity led me
to this document:

 I run across the following on Newsweek:
 So, instead of learning from facts and revising theory, we assume
that the facts are wrong, that China is one grand charade.
 I am wondering how to understand the "that" in "that China is

In
"get a-weigh, make sail, be off, start on our vast journey"
is
"get a-weigh"

Check out http://www.businesscommunicationheadlinenews.com.
I found PowerPoint programs (more than 800 !!! of them on the portion
of the site called the Business Communication Web Directory.
In the bar that goes across the top of the homepage of Business

I recently had an on-line debate over the usage of the word
"gibberish".  I'm not here to have it settled, but the argument it
made me curious about usage conventions in general.
Back story: someone posted a politically charged message.  I don't

I would like to invite everyone to see my Art work.  http://mungiako.com/my_work.htm

In updating the counts of newsreaders used by posters, I'm
getting a large count for a newsreader that's apparently
called "g".  The script may strip numerics in the newsreader
names it picks up, so it may be all the "g"s are "g2"s.  

I've been tripped up in class by teaching some of the "rules" of article
usage.  My first mistake was saying that one should use "the" when the noun
is followed by a non-partitive of-phrase, eg:
"the behaviour of monkeys"

I am having trouble understanding the following sentence because of
this word "probative" - can someone help?
"A decision must be based upon logically probative material and not
mere speculation"