Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010

From the same ESL student:
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I'd like to know which of the following is most commonly used in
Australia. Could someone from Australia help me ?

Hy evryone, it's my first post in here.
I'm studing English by reading and listening articles and audio from
original sources, in English.
If I make some mistakes, please correct me! :-)

What does
"the bay slicked off"
suggest?
Did the bay disappear/slide from view?

Is "maggot" here mean
"disgusting fellow"
or
"strange fellow, full of whims?"

Hyphenation has always thrown me for a loop. Which of the following is
correct:
"These people have not always been well served by the system in the
past."

I wonder if you got a term in English (In Chinese, we call them
"inserting student") that means a student who joins a class in the
middle of a semester, or some months later than his/her classmates
because of age borderline.  For example, a school that receives two-

Would "a therapy" be equally good?
----
Mick Stranahan tied a white bucktail on his line and began casting
from the

"A bruiser"
does it mean
"a tough one?" (perhaps ironically)
or

usage of both
1) She is both dead and buried.
2) They are both dead and buired.
1) is not a problem, because there is no room for misunderstanding.

NEW YORK, At a recent New York press conference, four former Fox News
employees exposed Fox's persistent Republican partisan bias, while
releasing internal memorandums from Fox News Channel showing executive
level instructions to Fox on how to bias the news.

usage of both
1) Both my parents will be here tomorrow.
2) Both parents will be here tomorrow.
1) is no problem, with no room to interprete otherwise

Sometimes it's convenient to say "e.g." at the beginning of a
sentence. Is there an accepted capitalisation for this? Similar issues
exist for other such abbreviations. So is it:
E.g. this?

I heard the word when I was in London, but I can't remember it now.
Thanks.

Some time ago we had a discussion about "racism" and "racialism", and when the
former began to replace the latter.
I've just been re-reading Trevor Huddleston's "Naught for your comfort", first
published in 1956.

I've always pronounced Haiti as "Ha-eetee", but since the recent earthquake
there I've noticed that newsreaders in several countries pronounce it
"Hate-ee".
Have I been wrong all along?