Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2008

    I have a question about the usage of "so as not to".   Please
help me.  Thanks in advance!
    The question is as follows.
      ______ in the American League Championship Series, the Red Sox

Spotted on rec.puzzles
aristoteles set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

A piece in this morning's Los Angeles Times told of a word "meh" that
is new to the language.  I don't care much what it means, but I'm
curious to know how it's pronounced.
It gets "about 20,600,000" Google hits.  I don't know if any of them

My very unscientific survey finds teh for the is  the most common usenet
typo
It easily eclipses your/you're, and their/there/they're.

When would one use "stand," "stay," "sit" in relation with the sun?
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Ada remains impassive, returning her gaze to the doll-baby. The sun
stands at mid-day, white-hot with anger.

Is the "it" in
"that they took it in turns"
really required?
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I was hoping you guys would be able to help me with the letter opening
line the idea of which is to introduce my services.
What I have in mind is something along the lines: "Please accept this
letter as an offer of providing my professional services in the field

I did some Google Groups searching a couple of weeks ago, and I
eventually hit on the following paragraph, which was posted on AUORFA
(by "No Body") in a message of January 2006:
# I don't know how long NIN keeps their logs, but if they should

According to 'Steve Wright in the Afternoon' on BBC Radio 2 there
are ...
185,000 words in the German language,
only 100,000 words in the French language but

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macabre
Both of these pronounciations are wrong, IMHO! :-D
I've *never* heard an American pronounce 'macabre' correctly, but,
blessum, they can do lots of other things! :-D

What does this phrase mean: "to think between the legs"?
If you're asking for context, I've read it here:
"Get over her and move on, you are only thinking between your legs
now."

I'd always assumed that confusion about pronoun case was caused (for some
reason) by co-ordinate constructions of the kind "he sent it to [Bill and
I]" (since no native speaker would say  "he sent it to I".  But I've just
heard, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation news, ...

Is there anything wrong with the following sentence?
"I have a long way to becoming an economist."

I'm not able to tell if "Will" is the verb or the noun here. "Will as we
may to believe" seems a very fine play of verbs. Does it perhaps mean
"We want to believe and we may believe [that]"
Also, what do you make of "Here on out?"