Feb 8, 2019 · The pronunciation of /wl/ and /wr/ is so ingrained that Minkova need not cover how they would be pronounced in Old English; meanwhile, she carefully documents how the …

What is the difference between Have a look and Take a look (meaning/connotations)? For example: Have a look at the question. Take a look at the question. For some reason I only …

Aug 31, 2015 · To me it seems perfectly fine, but I heard from a native speaker that it does not sound natural. For example: — Will you please send the assets by tomorrow? — Ok I will. …

May 29, 2019 · The /i/ sound is just the short version of /i:/; without the ː length mark it is shorter. Just as you can find /i:/ in words like peat, the /i/ sound is found in words like happiness where …

When properly quoted for Google search, the numbers are: "I have a question for you" 28M results, "I have a question to you" 3M results. If usage on the net is a guide, the former over …

(a) Feeling good is the usual phrase. (b) Feeling is not a "verb of being"; there are no such things. Rather, feeling is a sense verb, representing personal sensory perception and its metaphoric …

The first form "If you were to go home, you would feel better." should be grammatically correct, but it sounds rather strange to me. The second form "If you went home, you would feel better." …

Dec 19, 2012 · Not My Field, so subject to correction: In Old English the “voiced labiovelar approximant” /w/ was in fact pronounced in the initial clusters /wr/ and /wl/. Lass, Cambridge …

Words that in Modern English are written ending with -le derive from words ending in -el, -el- or are related with such words. candle Old English candel cattle Anglo-Norman catel ladle Old …

The difference between "I and my friends" and "my friends and I" is purely a matter of courtesy - they are both grammatically correct. I would tend to stick to the latter though, as it a) is more …