Absolutely beautiful: The title of Natalie Merchant’s new album Leave Your Sleep is taken from a Mother Goose rhyme:
“Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
and come with your playfellows into the street.”
In the booklet that introduces the two-disk album, she writes,
“This collection [...]
You can say “This laptop needs repairs” and, very elegant: “This laptop needs repairing.”
But which of these two is correct:
“This laptop needs to be repaired.”
“This laptop needs being repaired.”
Yes, unfortunately I’ve worked my poor laptop so hard that it’s got several hardware problems now. One key sometimes doesn’t work (the 9), and the right loudspeaker [...]
It’s spring. Deep breath. Smile.
On Sunday we built up the catamaran, our Dart 18, the Seebock. It’s now sitting down by the beautiful Ammersee, ready to go. Looks good, but could use a new trampoline and some lines. The water was 7.5 degrees centigrade, brrrr, so we decided to go and have potato-leek soup and [...]
How do you refer to general knowledge?
“_____________ flights all over Europe are cancelled because of the volcano.”
They say
Something tells me
One says
Related news:
Lufthansa is reportedly going to try to sue the German government for damages.
John Cleese is alleged to have spent thousands to get from Oslo to Brussels… by taxi!
What a pretty interpretation of the Beatles’ classic, by She & Him.
I don’t like you
But I love you
Seems that I’m always
Thinkin’ of you
Oh, ho, ho, you treat me badly
I love you madly
You’ve really got a hold on me
(You really got a hold on me)
You really got a hold on me
(You really got a hold on [...]
Ok, this guy’s knocked out some teeth here:
Danny Granger, American professional basketball player for the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, famously knocked out his two front teeth in a victorious game against the Boston Celtics on 1 November 2008. You can say both of these:
He knocked out two teeth.
He knocked two teeth out.
But you can only say [...]
My favorite quote so far at IATEFL: “Do not teach things that are wrong.” That’s Dave Willis. And as he proves in this talk held before a room full of English teachers, it’s easier said than done. We often enough do teach total malarkey, namely as soon as we teach prescriptive grammar rules that don’t [...]
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