Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2010

A message was sent to congratulate Spain
On their "cupo del mundo" achievement.
It should have been "copa", I ought to explain,
But that's not what caused the aggrievement.

I am writing a sentence. I do not want to repeat so many times the
same words. In particular, I do not want to place  "export turnovers"
two times  too close like this "The gap between August's export
turnover and September's export turnover of this category was......."

When I bought my AHD4 college edition, the book included a disk for
the full AHD4, which I installed on my Windows XP laptop several
years ago.
Now I have a Windows 7 laptop, and it won't install the AHD4 because