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I'm looking for very short 'stories' with a moral such as http://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html They don't have to be religious. This is also the type of thing I would...
I want to know some examples of, semantically incorrect/correct sentences as well as Syntaxically incorrect/correct. I am trying to figure out, what semantics and syntax are but the articles that I...
What compound word is derived from a late middle English term and indicates exasperation. It was used in literature by Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf. One of them used a hyphen, the other did...
As of March 2015 who was Chairman of the British Board of National Treasures?
I have looked everywhere, but cannot come up with anything. Thank you....
Does anyone have any ideas which book we could read for our Christmas meeting. We would like a book either set at Christmas or one with a strong Christmas theme. We don't want " A Christmas Carol"...
I am enthralled by the wonderful programmes that BBC TV often serve up. (How I wish I had just a fraction of that in my school curriculum.) But I am aghast at how often the programme presenter –of...
Hi I'm looking for a children's book my late father used to read to me. I don't know what the book was called or who the author is. The book was about a mummy and daddy bear and the trouble their...
Apologise or apologize? A colleague swears that the ize ending is the correct spelling and was taught that at school. (This is English not American by the way)
Which is the correct historical usage ?...
I would like to know which of the the following sentences is correct English: 1."British history has been a history of these idiots killing each other." 2."British history has been a history of these...
I remember reading a novel, based on the true story of a daughter of the Newcomb family of Stamford, in the 1970s. The one-word title was the girl's name, possibly, Julia. I may well be wrong about...