Re: "hiya" -- I usually say "heya" -- is that as common?

They're not different ideas at all. They both indicate that the person 's base is in X place but that he or she might not spend all his or her working...

No, it doesn't sound good. And it's ambiguous. Does she conduct business in the garage or is her desk and phone and computer in the garage but her...

Bob Bridges said E e cummings is free to do differently (who expects grammar from a poet?) Cummings used all lower case in his poetry, but best evid...

Dick said but I feel that if someone speaking used this as a way to gather his thoughts, I would easily forgive it. People have done other things th...

The "Keltics" pronunciation is what would be correct when speaking in a Celtic language. So, many English speakers have switched to that. But sport...

Raffee said RobertB said: They are all borrowed words, no exception ! Yes, but my main point was that why we pronounce it as /eɪ/, and...

If you're talking about its use in unsolicited E-mail, I'm guessing it's just a way to avoid spam filters.

The word was literally not allowed in print or in movies until approximately Catcher in the Rye, but it has one of the oldest pedigrees of any English...

More, generally, it's a surname prefix

To me, deliberately violating the usual capitalization rules for things like I or personal names is what is egotistical.

Robert said it seems pretty back-handed to figure the President, or anyone, as a horse, no? I can't tell whether this is joking, but I always though...

I prefer Jones's, but as a regular listener to public radio, it seems that the trend is toward Jones' in speech (meaning, there's no extra -iz at the ...

These are the combinations I have encountered: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner (most common where I'm from) Breakfast-Lunch-Supper Breakfast-Dinner-Supper...