Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2007

What would you give?
A travelling exhibition devoted to the theme of failed relationships
is proving a hit in Berlin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7059844.stm

I don't know the right different between "child" and "infant".
Specialy I want to know if it is called "child nurse" or "infant nurse"
or another word?

The quote below, apparently written during the mid-1980s, has
sometimes been cited as an example of how bad a paragraph can come out
when it reaches the press.  I copied and pasted it from a Usenet post
made in 1995:

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When people say someone blinks like an owl, what does that mean?
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If someone says:
"What you say will be relevant if it has probative value"
what do they mean by "probative value"?

Hi all, can you help me clarify the term "unanimous"?
When a decision is unanimous, does it mean that the decision is
supported by EVERYONE in a group or MOST of group members?
Can I say: "My friends and I were discussing whether we should spend

The new buzzword in the world of customer service seems to be
"escalate".  
Some time ago I was on the phone repeatedly to customer service about
a software problem and was told that my problem had been "escalated".

Here is a bizarre line in a song, with its surrounding lines:
"You can make the sky turn purple,
You can make the sea turn turtle,
But you know you can never make me love you more."

State of Illinois annual online ethics training for government
employees contains this sentence:
"OEIG investigators observed inspectors simply driving through the
parking lots of businesses that they later reported as having

I have a question about the "in" uses in the end of the following sentence:
"There's an old abandoned logging road that McDermott has trekked up and
down hundreds of times because some of the best wood for his fiddles is
found in a stand of trees a mile or so _in_."