I say it this way. For whatever reason, pronouncing it correctly sounds somewhat childish to me. I don’t know why. Probably just because I’m so used to saying it the wrong way.
Principle Investigator should be Principal Investigator, although it is confusing as a PI often is researching scientific principles.
The issue with the bruschetta seemed to be one of proportions and not actual usage.
Around here, Lehman is a very common Amish surname, and we are not too far from the renowned Lehman’s Hardware.
One of our faculty remembers reported that a student used the phrase “in Lehman’s terms” in a paper.
You’ve got another thing coming.
Think!
On the garage sale sites on FB. They have items for sale that are barley used.
Yeah, this one might be a losing battle, like “step foot in” vs. “set foot in”.
Around here its not unusual to see cars parked next to main roads with some form of sale notice on them.
Mostly it will be a “For Sale” sign with a price and phone number, occasionally you’ll see one that says:
“Car
4
Sale”
which most people would get and is, I guess, OK when you are trying to catch the eye of someone driving past.
I would love to know what the person that put “Car four sail” on their sign was thinking.
c. 1985
Ooooooohhhhh… Don’t know why I didn’t get that. Thanks!
A friend once told me he was waiting for something with ‘fetid breath.’
And a former boss always mangled the ‘e.g.’ conjunction in written english. She would say
“In Germany several different brands of cars are manufactured, for e.g., Mercedes Benz, Audi, and BMW.”
I am pretty sure she thought ‘e.g.’ stood for ‘eggsample.’ And she had a PhD.
Entirely possible, particularly if he hadn’t brushed his teeth for the past month.
Well, you know, they’re old guys. It’s fallen down prostrate – and he can’t get it up…:eek:
When I was teaching English in Japan, I had a tough hour trying to teach tag-questions [For example, statement…“, isn’t it?”] but not because the Japanese don’t do that.* The difficulty was getting them to answer correctly in the affirmative or negative.
So as we wrapped up the hour, I finished with, “That was fun, wasn’t it!”
And everyone nodded and said, “Yes! That wasn’t fun!”
I’ll never know who was just teasing me or which of them were still clueless.
–G!
*In fact, they often summarize the tag-question in a simple, “Neh?” that’s equivalent to our slang, “, huh?” in many cases. But I was teaching a more formal English…