2021年1月8日 · Because 7 ate 9.— Gina D'Amato, 9, Milltown. … As I'm of a certain age, I tend to blame all jokes like this on the anonymous geniuses at Dixie Cup Corporation, who produced a line of riddle cups in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s.

"After all 7 8 9" joke? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 11 ... Seven ate Nine:) Share. Improve this answer.

2019年3月6日 · According to the tale, when Washington was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and accidentally damaged his father's cherry tree, claiming that the dog ate the cherries. The incident is said to date back to 1738: The etymological origin of the dog ate my homework was buried in the the tale of George Washington and the cherry tree.

2017年11月18日 · Not necessarily. In BrE, ate is sometimes pronounced /et/, and the Cambridge Dictionary gives this pronunciation. Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences. In AmE, ate and eight appear to be pronounced the same. However, if you are learning English, I would recommend that you pronounce them both the same (/eɪt/).

2016年2月17日 · Max O'Rell, is widely credited with being the first English writer to frame the rule of "half plus seven." Here is his wording of the rule, in O'Rell, Her Royal Highness, Woman: And His Majesty—Cupid (1

2015年3月31日 · I've met the following phrase: Something happened on February 12-25, 2010. It means that some event started on February 12th and ended on February 25th.

I find the OED note puzzling, because the OED2 (and OED3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “/eɪt/ /ɛt/ /iːt/” and also makes it clear that /eɪt/ is the older form, with /εt/ being analogically formed based on similarly patterning strong verbs like read and lead (and also beat and heat in certain dialectal ...

2019年2月28日 · Either 2 or 3 is correct. In the phrasal verb pick up, the object can come before or after the preposition.. Oxford Learner's Dictionary provides this notation for the relevant meanings of pi

2012年11月9日 · This answer has received some downvotes, but I think it has merit. There are times when you use a question to make an emphatic statement, "You ate ALL the pie?!" In this case, the question mark is the punctuation for the sentence because it is a question, and the exclamation mark describes how it is said.

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