Discussion Groups / British English / May 2004

(This article is talking about study habits.)
"... Then you should decide on good,regular times for studying."
What about this?
"...Then you should decide on good,regular time for studying?" or "...

I moved to London (from Canada) a year ago and I often here this (subject
line above) usage of the verbs 'to sit' or 'to stand'. e.g. "I was sat at my
desk". People seem to use it to mean "I was sitting at my desk", not that
they were made to sit there by someone else which is what ...

Hi, I am italian. I have a doubt about one of the meaning attributed to the
word "stage" (english pronunciation), which in Italy is commonly used for
"training course". In that meaning, in my opinion, it should be used the
french pronunciation: as far as I know in english the word ...

"boilerplate" is the fine print (legal jargon),
the same old boring language that you skip.

2 a : standardized text

In a volume of Collected writings of J.M. Keynes ("Activities
1931-1939") are reported  the "notes for a speech to the Political
Economy Club, 11 November 1931". At some point, Keynes writes (p. 12)
"Ripe pear falling off the tree

I constantly hear people saying "I forget" instead of "I forgot" and
they claim that "I forget" is present tense and therefore correct but
I have never ever heard the term "I forget" being used by an English
teacher.

Hello newgroup
I'm sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for the matter, otherwise i'm happy
for suggestions to more appropriate ng's.
I'm caught up in a discussion about the movie "Dawn of the dead", and

I used to think that
"FYI (for your information)"  meant the same thing as
"For your information ONLY"
i.e., no action (or immediate attention) is needed.

To complete a catchy acronym, I am looking for synonyms of the
following English words that start with the letter "A"
-    Fast
-    Lightweight

I've just been listening to BBC R4's _Word of Mouth_, which last week
discussed "metrosexual".  One of their country listeners complained that
there ought to be word for these urban dwellers' rural cousins, and
suggested "hedgerowsexual".

The war of the words
One of the chief problems with the current exciting
adventure in Iraq is that no one can agree on what
to call anyone else.