I readed an article about a man who needed an ambulance, but he bleeded to death as he speeded to the hospital.

@ deaconB: "Seems to me you spell someone else, or you sit a spell, but you don't spell." That's how 'spell' (noun) and 'to spell somebody' (transi...

This use (or function) of "why", as in "Why you little rascal, you!" is not related to the normal use of "why" in questions like, "Why do Germans wear...

I think a lot of the slang and slang phrases that are now in common usage throughout the country were sort of regional usages (and limited in range), ...

I suspect the popularization of the -ize constructions comes about (like some other language trends) as a result of newspaper editors wanting to abbre...

Sure, pickles are any food item that has been preserved by the pickling process. I suspect this is a regional thing. Maybe in some parts of the cou...

The “ingressive affirmative” (audible intake of air to indicate agreement or yes) is used by pretty much every Swedish person I know. Can function...

No, I'd say "shelled" and "unshelled" would only be ambiguous for people with absolutely no knowledge at all on the subject of gardening, agriculture,...

OK....But... because the 'shelled' element of 'unshelled' is a participle, it is derived not directly from the noun 'shell', but rather from the verb ...

unshelled, unpasteurized, unwed, unmarried, uneducated, unspoiled, unknown I guess unshelled belongs to a class of particples (which function as ad...

True, the "skall" is the formal written form in Swedish, but in the spoken language, you almost never hear the "ll", it is always "ska". When people w...

To Bob, I would add that AFAIK (at least in Swedish and German), there is no sound that is similar to the English "w" sound in "way" or "wow". &nbs...