Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2007

What is Planned Parenthood?
Thanks

I very curious about the quality of my translation from
Swedish to English. Any here speak Swedish? How good or
bad is my Swedish?
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I recently read a book about Peabody Essex Museum in Boston,
Massachusetts, in which the writer (Japanese) mentions the
pronunciation of "r" in "Morse".  
In Japanese, "Morse" in "Morse Code" is pronounced as "mohrusu",

"Colossal Cave Guide Lauren Hohl"
Comments?...r

Grant Barrett has a word today for something I can provide a pic if
anyone is interested:
http://www.doubletongued.org/
shoefiti n. pairs of shoes, with laces tied, thrown over power lines,

Is there anything wrong with any of the following?
(1)They died, leaving behind families of widows and fortunes.
(2)They died, leaving behind a family of widow and fortune.
Tks

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For those of you who have been around here for a long time, you will
be
familiar with James Follett -JF.
I regret to announce that he died suddently from a heart attack over

My Cuban friend mispronounced "oblong".
On being corrected, he replied:
"Sorry, I no hoblong English".

"Making kight of"
Is this slang, and what's the meaning of it?
"Making light?"
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I have a friend who criticizes this term and
insists that saying "I took sick on my
vacation" is not proper English.
She claims it's in a class with "went missing",

So I'm on the ticket line and I hear the agent asking "what is the
expiration date?" and the customer replies "don't understand."
She wanted to find the expiration of his passport and he (an Asian
fellow) spoke little english. Instead of changing the question, she just

Hi all, sometimes I am confused with how to use prepositions.
Sometimes I hear someone saying: I can't meet with you on Wednesday,
while sometimes I hear " I can't meet you on Wednesday". What is the
difference between "meet with" and "meet"?

does anybody treat agenda and data as plural? Is there any context
where that is done?
"These agenda"
"These data"

In theory, of course, kids can't spoil themselves - only the parents
can do that. However, I feel as though I've heard the term "self-
spoiled" more than once. (Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred "Bosie"
Douglas has been referred to as such.)