Re: Why Shakespeare Was Not Oxford (Or Anyone Else Other Than William Shakespeare of Stratford Upon Avon)
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:18:01 +0200
$!u
http://tinyurl.com/2q7hd9
see also
www.shakespeareauthorship.com
The Droeshout portrait is not unusual at all!
http://hometown.aol.com/kqknave/shakenbake.html
Rita
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Re: Why Shakespeare Was Not Oxford (Or Anyone Else Other Than William Shakespeare of Stratford Upon Avon)
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:25:52 +0200
$,u
http://tinyurl.com/2q7hd9
see also
www.shakespeareauthorship.com
The Droeshout portrait is not unusual at all!
http://hometown.aol.com/kqknave/shakenbake.html
Rita
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Big numbers
Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:04:10 +0100
The news has been full of large numbers in the last few days. I was
taught as a child (1950s) that 'billion' was a million millions, and
'trillion' was a million billions. My OED (2nd ed., 1989) gives
<quote>
Billion
1. orig. and still commonly in Great Britain: A million millions (=
U.S. trillion)
2. In U.S ...
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How do you pronounce fractions in British English?
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:45:19 +0200
Hello,
I am looking for the right pronunciation of fractions in British
English. Every style guide I find is very clear about thirds,
quarters and fifths, but then they stop.
How do you pronounce fractions like "4000 / 563" in English? Is it
"Four thousand five hundred sixty thirds"? How do you differentiate
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Cervantes wrote Shakespeare's plays. A rehash.
Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:16:55 -0700 (PDT)
"... o somos o no somos"
It was haunting me since I had recently re-read it, to the point that
has forced me to write a new post in this blog:
"... porque o somos o no somos"
Does it sound familiar? Probably not if you don't speak Spanish or any
other Latin-based language. The translation is
"to be or not to ...
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Learnglish
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:02:36 -0700
There's a Web page headed "Learnglish" that has a huge number of
alt.usage.english postings that are offered without, so far as I've
found, giving any credit to alt.usage.english. The author of each
posting is shown, but the names have been stripped from the
intermediate attributions.
They try to give the ...
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I want to improve my English
Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:13:07 +0000 (UTC)
Hi everybody,
I am new this group. I want to improve my English doing mail to each
other if you have a idea to how I can improve English in a short
time?? I shall be highly thankful to you if somebody reply on my
email.
My email: benetto@gazeta.pl
Yours faithfully,
Benek ...
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"would have"
Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:04:00 +0100
I'm starting to notice, more and more, a strange and - to my ear -
clumsy construction for the subjunctive. The latest instance, on Radio
4 just now, was:
"If these guys would have done..."
Whereas what I would have expected is "If these guys had done..."
The latter, of course, can also be inverted to "H ...
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I need to contact with native English speakers
Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:53:56 +0000 (UTC)
Hello All.
I would like to meet nice native English speakers. Who have enough
leisure time to make an email exchange with me. We can discussion about
culture, language. In next year I would like to pass my FCE exam. So I
have to make a lot of language exercises as for to pass it.
My email is: benetto@gazeta ...
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"Fewer than 10": Linguistic web-experiment
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
For a pilot experiment we're conducting, I need (English) language
enthusiasts to fill in a very small web survey on the use of
cardinality expressions such as "fewer than 10". This is why I'm
writing to you all to ask whether you could spare one minute of your
time to fill in two questions at:
http://ww ...
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