Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2007

"Merriam-Webster's 2007 word of the year: w00t"
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9832741-52.html

I am from abroad (Belgium) and I am pretty focussed on the word
"cometh".  It showed up in an episode of the series Midsomer Murder in
the episode "The axeman cometh".  I have been digging up some things
in this group but could not find what I was looking for.  Most about

CAN YOU RECOMMEND ME A VEEEEERY GOOD INTERNET ADDRESS TO LEARN
ENGLISH GRAMMAR FROM? Also, I am interested in where I can find
interesting reading stories in English for my high-school students of
English. Thanks

What type of question is this?
"Do you believe we are headed for a recession?"
The question is from
http://finance.yahoo.com/ and is posed as a 'poll'

"British schools are facing an 'English language' crisis as it
 was revealed that children studying English as their first
 language are in a minority now."
http://sify.com/news/international/fullstory.php?id=14576732

I have a friend in another country. He visits my blog pretty often. I
add new entries to my blog almost everyday, and he thinks I have the
time to blog because I'm not married.
So one day my friend said that he would know that I (got? would get?

Heard on TV:
1. "Prevent" pronounced as "pervent."
   My diagnosis: sloppy speech/talking too fast.
Forgivable?

"The Government is reportedly planning to make immigrants sit
 English language tests if they want to become Irish citizens."
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3258229.ece
sit? Is this wrong side of the pond dialect?

Can anyone tell me what is the adjective of MANCHESTER?  Thanks

The new era in mobile phones bring to us its prime dweller.The iPhone
is the latest and greatest invention for the next 5 years.It would be
doing it a huge disservice to simply call it a mobile phone.iPhone
combines three products, a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen

From an online article in the Washington Post:
begin excerpt==="...the industry maintains that it is
illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to
transfer that music into his computer.===end excerpt.

My wife and I just spent a few days in Savannah, Georgia on a short
holiday.
I was walking by building that contained a very large financial
firms's office and noticed, through the window, that several people

I'm making a Toastmasters speech next Saturday about saying contents
of my speech carefully. One of the guidelines that I came across is
that I'm encouraged to use active voice instead of passive voice. I'm
aware that active voice adds more live in the sentence, yet I have

One of my friends is a teacher of English in China.  She recently sent
me some short essays in English by one of her students.  The senior
student is her favorite.  She asked me if this student were attending
an American high school,  what would his writing be ranked? Very poor,

I recently finished reading an interesting novel, Land of echoes by Daniel
Hecht. It is a kind of ghost story, based on beliefs of the Navajo people in
the south-western USA.
One thing I found strange and rather off-putting, however, was that the author