Nov 7, 2013 · 1) Please tell me why is it like that. [grammatically incorrect unless the punctuation is changed. Please tell me: Why is it like that? The question: "Why is [etc.]" is a question form in English: Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so …

Possible Duplicate: Where does the use of “why” as an interjection come from? This is a common English phrase that I'm sure everyone has heard before. However, I find it puzzling...

May 23, 2019 · I don’t think it’s a fashion thing at all. In my opinion it’s about how children hear the sounds and imitate them while learning to speak.

Aug 23, 2014 · Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?

Another word for a females Vagina. A man has a winkle and a woman has a tuppence. On one hand, those are two presumably independent contributors giving the same definition. On the other hand, you often can't trust The Urban Dictionary on some types of words, especially ones that have sexual meanings, because it's titillating for some people to give outrageous sexual definitions. Some my ...

There is no official English: English is what its speakers make of it. That said, and/or is terrible English. It should be avoided, and people who use it should be made fun of. It exists because there are three ways to use the words and and or: Eat your peas and carrots. Do you want steak, salad, potatoes, or what? You can either look at your …

The NOAD reports that aren't is the contraction of are not, and am not; in the latter case, it is used only in questions. Why aren't I being given a pay raise? The Collins English Dictionary says the same, but it says that using aren't as contraction of am not is informal, and chiefly British. informal, mainly British (used in interrogative ...

Feb 18, 2016 · The word ending spelled apostrophe "s" is a phonemic /z/ in all the instances I can think of. (But English spelling is not very regular, so there could be exceptions.) However, English has a morphophonemic rule that converts a voiced obstruent (e.g. /z/) to the corresponding voiceless phoneme (for /z/ that would be /s/) when the /z/ is immediately preceded by a voiceless obstruent phoneme. The ...

Jun 14, 2012 · There’s no simple answer to any question of the form “How is <letter>/<digraph> pronounced?” It depends. As you’ll have seen in the Wikipedia article, what would have been pronounced /ai/ in Latin is usually pronounced /iː/ in English, but there are inevitably exceptions like the name Æleen, or examples like paedophile where the British rendering /iː/ goes through both a spelling ...

Feb 20, 2014 · It is actually a sensible response to thank you. All you have to do is look at the modern replacements for it. When someone thanks me, I'm often wont to say "No problem!" as my response. Or, "It was my pleasure." and so on. The welcome in you're welcome is a statement saying: *I would do this for you again, if asked." (i.e. You're welcome to ask me again.) See Susan's excellent answer for the ...