Discussion Groups / British English / January 2006

I have a last request for corrections. It is a letter to a prof, he has
already access to my whole profile.
Thank you again for your valuable time.
Dear BIGPROF1,

it is me again :) dudes. here is the letter:
__________________
Professor BIGPROF1,
I am a prospective student, I have applied to the Ph.D. graduate

My mother toungue is Polish and I can't grasp the difference between
both words since in Polish we have only one word that translates to both
aforementioned.
I've looked up some explanations in dictionaries and handbooks but they

Could you explain some vocabulary that is written in so slang a way that is
impossible to catch it, please.
Regards,
Pawel

I heard and learnt as well that you British are not really pious any more.
Would you agree? Tell me more about it. It is a piece of knowledge I cannot
just find. It must be told by you.
If it touches your personal feelings, accept my appologies. However, here

 as you could see some time ago, I'm looking for British people who
would be so kind as to fill in a questionnaire about British English.
I'm really thankful for the help three Britons provided me with, but I
need at least twenty respondents. I'd be great if you could give me

I note on usenet that there are two conventions about the positioning of
punctuation ? ! : and ;
The a majority post "is this correct?"
While a significant minority post "is this correct ?"

What's the difference between the two ?
Btw, I wish you a happy new year.

Could you tell me if there are any names for your motorways and how they
have changed over years, please?
Regards,
Pawel

English is not my native-language. So if you could help me :). Here it
is (it is a statement of purpose for graduate admission to a bigUNIV):
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Statement of Purpose.

I watched the trailers for  Balderdash and Piffle  (Mondays 21:00 to
21:50) and was very doubtful about if it would be worth watching
What they are doing is to find the first recorded use of a word for
use in the Oxford English Dictionary.

http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.culture.language.english.html
Ok, I read it carefully now.
Pawel
Poland

alt.usage.english has failed so far to answer it, that is why I dare to
bother you. Please, help me.
We can say
Such a beautifiul house

Hi every body!
My name is pauline, I'm 18 and I love the 7th art: the cinema. My
favorite film or may be the film which are changed my life is "You've
got mail". It's a geat happyness to watch it. The scene takes place in

Dear great masters
A friend of mine is writing a physics article. She has been examining a
series of (physical) systems, and found that these systems do not
behave the same. Which of the following two sentences is correct: