A bit like why does cargo go in a ship, but a shipment goes in a carOk Lizards
Why do you drive on a parkway but park on a drive way?
I wonder how foreign students of English are taught how either, either and neither or either and neither are correctly pronounced?Why is it called a tootbrush? Surely should be a teethbrush unless it was invented by a Mackem??
View attachment 12641
I wonder how foreign students of English are taught how either, either and neither or either and neither are correctly pronounced?
Is it it either and neither or either and neither?
Either way, it's either or either or neither or neither, or mebbees its neither, either nor either nor neither or neither.
Building that sentence took me right back to learning logic in digital electronics and also in maths at UNI.
My head hurts
No but there's a silent p in Bath, one of our MamsIs the double ee in Pee silent?
And there's no F in sugar ......one for the works canteenNo but there's a silent p in Bath, one of our Mams
Most people would say 2. It is actually 1 and 2. They are both correct but have different meanings. If you changed number 1 to :Which sentence below is correct?
1. A woman: without her, man is nothing.
2. A woman, without her man, is nothing.
The importance of punctuation:Most people would say 2. It is actually 1 and 2. They are both correct but have different meanings. If you changed number 1 to :
A woman: without her, man is nothing, irons his own clothes and washes his own dishes.
It looks correct. The colon preceeds a list or an example or a proof.