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- What does wipe your chin and walk away mean?
Sean Parker: "And they want you to say 'thank you' while you, excuse me, wipe your chin and walk away " I never was quite able to figure this one out , so what exactly does wipe your chin and walk away refers to?
- pronunciation - Do “here” and “hear” have the same phonetic . . .
I'm surprised by Sean's statement of Kentuckians pronouncing "here" as two syllables but "hear" as one, because, as I say, the only dialect I've ever heard had it the other way around But I've never lived in the South, only passed through now and then, so maybe there are multiple, mutually-confusing dialects down there :-)
- Term for intentionally using a word in a context inconsistent with its . . .
Is there a term that describes an instance where someone intentionally uses a word in a context inconsistent with the word’s literal definition? I spent a long time trying to phrase it correctly
- When should Mom and Dad be capitalized? - English Language Usage . . .
When you are using the word "Dad" to refer to a specific person, it's standing in place of their name, and thus, like their name, would be capitalized When you're talking about dads in general, it's a common noun Say you had a horse named Betsy and were re-writing the sentence to refer to her: The one thing I learned from my horse was that it was good to earn the trust of one's children
- meaning - What does lifes a beach mean? - English Language Usage . . .
Somewhere on Yahoo News I read this text: Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn turned heads when they showed up together at Reese Witherspoon's wedding The 26-year-old actress took 50-year-old
- A classmate and I was vs A classmate and I were
The verb were agrees with the plural subject, "A classmate and I" The singular "student" should be plural "students" in both examples You might say "I was one of the first two x students to be awarded this scholarship" (where x is name of college) to better emphasize your achievement and avoid the non-specific and distracting phrase, "a classmate"
- and me or me and. . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Possible Duplicate: “Me and my wife” or “my wife and me” I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns eg "They went to the game with S
- Why are sugar and sure pronounced with an SH?
I've noticed many Scottish and Irish Gaelic words to be spelled with an s, followed by a vowel, and pronounced like sh Think about the way Sean Connery speaks (not to mention how the Se in his name is pronounced)
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