The expressions such as and such clauses as are both acceptable. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Such As vs. Such Clauses As” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hello. Hi, this is Jeff Raymer in Grapevine. Grapevine what? Oh, Texas...
We all lead busy lives—so are speed reading courses a good idea? Plus, if you hear someone speaking with a British accent, do you tend to assume they’re somehow more intelligent? And some common English surnames tell us stories about life in the...
In parts of the South, it’s not uncommon to end a sentence about a dilemma with the word one, short for one or the other, as in “I’m going to quit my job or get fired, one.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Southern Sentence about...
All’s, as in the common clause all’s you have to do, isn’t grammatically incorrect. It’s a valid contraction of the archaic construction all as. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “All’s I’m Saying” Hello, you have A Way with Words...
“Grandpa, what’s that?” A caller says that when she asked her grandfather one too many questions, he’d give her the fanciful answer, “That’s a dingbat off of a wiffem dilly that you grind smoke with.” It’s one of several things parents say to...
A Quebec listener asks: In the phrases it’s a girl, or it’s raining, what exactly is the it here? It’s called the weather it or the dummy it, and it serves a placeholder inserted to make the sentence function grammatically. This is part of a...
