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Security and safety - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Laquo; An American-British usage experiment. Translated by Bing ». Returning after a regrettably long absence I would like to mention something that I saw on Trip Adviser. A hotel in Spain was replying to a customer who had complained that the hotel didn’t have irons for hire. The response was that this was the hotel’s policy ‘for security reasons’. Covers two concepts that are clearly differentiated in English.
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Why Christmas - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Dwarfs and the Guardian ». The other day I went to a carol concert here in Barcelona. It finished with White Christmas or it should have, but this is what we got:. I'm dreaming of a why Christmas. With every Christmas card I wry. May your days be merry and brigh. And may all your Christmases be why. Unlike Spanish, which has no words ending with the airway obstructed or the mouth closed. Or so I thought. From French)...
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Dwarfs and the Guardian - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Laquo; Why Christmas. An American-British usage experiment ». Dwarfs and the Guardian. It is no secret that I dislike apostrophes and. Would abolish them if I had the power to do so. Hyphens seem to be disappearing. I regret this. However, they are commonly used to combine numbers and units: a 20-tonne lorry, a 40-year-old woman. Somehow something went wrong in the Guardian and we have. People outside the UK may not ...
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Has no word for. Language teaching and ability. Lavengro Books and publishing. Follow this blog with mobile-friendly emails. A Guide to English Language Usage for Non-Native Speakers and Great English Mistakes Made by Spanish-Speakers, both by Peter Harvey. Lavengro Books is not responsible for the Spanish Book Description that appears on some Amazon sites but getting Amazon to change anything isn't easy.
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Outstanding - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Why Christmas ». Is an ambiguous word. Something that stands out is different from the rest. An outstanding result is an extraordinary one, and the word is specifically positive; on its own it implies excellence. But something that is a matter that still has to be dealt with or a debt that has not been paid is also said to be outstanding. A similar word is overlook. On 02/12/2014 at 15:22. Save to del.icio.us. Compar...
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Firstable - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Laquo; Grammar poll. Published in 2008, I write:. A classic mistake is to write this because you have heard a speaker say it at a meeting. But you haven’t. What he actually said was, First of all. I would like to thank. I can’t remember when I first saw it in written work from a student and I remember being astonished when I did but it wasn’t by any means new to me when I wrote that. The Language Log reports. An Amer...
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Index ortografic | diacritica
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Nu sunt şi n-am fost vreodată profă de română. N-am nici o diplomă-ţidulă-certificat într-ale limbii române. Doar o diplomă de bac (nici măcar filologic), şi aia cu – parcă – 8,50 la română. Blogul ăsta e doar un hobby. Aşa cum unii meşteresc Turnul Eiffel din fire de păr de muscă, eu mă distrez scriind pe net despre orori (ne)ortografice. Ceea ce nu mă face vreo specialistă în domeniu. Prin urmare nu pune bază pe ce zic eu aici, du-te personal la DOOM2, la DEX. Ţi, cu liniuţă şi fără. 8222;să aibă”...
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An American-British usage experiment - Lavengro
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Language and languages, mostly but not always about English. Lavengro Books on Facebook. Laquo; Dwarfs and the Guardian. Security and safety ». An American-British usage experiment. Louise asks for comments on these sentences. It’s easy to see which way this is heading but as my comment is there I will say no more here, for now at least. A) Looking at the three designs, I was most drawn to the round one that bled outside the page border; however, I liked the square one too. On 22/01/2015 at 13:07. Dealin...
