copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
prepositions - Comfortable with or comfortable in? - English Language . . . Lingohelp gives a corpus-based overview of the idiomaticity of 'comfortable with' and 'comfortable in' One of the examples is spot-on: So, I am more comfortable with Hindi than I am with Tamil However, a lot of the 'comfortable in' examples seem to involve locative prepositional phrases such as 'I felt comfortable in their house', which skew the overall picture Raw data doesn't really
Washroom, restroom, bathroom, lavatory, toilet or toilet room I've always been confused by the terms washroom, restroom, bathroom, lavatory, toilet and toilet room My impression is that Canadians would rather say washroom while Americans would probably say
grammar - To compensate or compensate for? - English Language . . . The New Oxford American Dictionary has an example of the meaning you're using: compensate [among others] • act to neutralize or correct (a deficiency or abnormality in a physical property or effect): the output voltage rises, compensating for the original fall It used transitively to mean “recompense someone for loss, suffering, or injury” (same source) Example: Pakistan to Compensate
irritated vs annoyed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange When trying to understand the difference between irritated and annoyed I get this definition: Annoy means: To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant
Where did Shakespeare get milk of human kindness from? Therfore good syster, ye muste nouryshe repast confort and chasten these your goodly chyldren, ye muste nouryshe them with good maners, with deuoute contemplacyon, with the mylke of eternall swetenesse, ye must repast them with the loue of heuēly pasture, ye muste conforte them, with the breade of the worde of God