現代英語評註
Commentary on Current English
 

Commentary Page One

• dreamed or dreamt?
• learned or learnt?
• hardly ... when ...
• take a bath
• ordered pairs
• different
• any more or anymore?
• fellow/fella/feller
• girl/gal/gel
• hot/warm
• protest
• bunch
• mutual
• may have
• burned or burnt?

Commentary Page Two

• alright
• research/researches
• join or join together?
• accompanied by or
  accompanied with?
• inside, inside of, or within?
• advertise or advertize?
• each side or either side
• following or after?
• firstly or first?
• just because
• glance or glimpse?
• licence or license?
• identical with or identical to?
• a whole 'nother
• schoolmate

Commentary Page Three

• all the rage
• else but, else except, or else than?
• knitted or knit?
• biological clock
• literally
• hopefully
• geographic or geographical?
• calmly
• due to, owing to, or because of?
• plausible
• hung or hanged?
• arguably
• respect
• confuse
• graffiti is or graffiti are?

Commentary Page Four

• in eclipse
• paragon
• land/country
• dilemma or quandary?
• descendant or descendent?
• it's or its?
• wimmin
• dependent or dependant?
• disinterest, uninterest, or lack of interest?
• irreparable, irrepairable, or unrepairable?
• yoof
• bail or bale?
• conference or congress?
• thesis or dissertation?
• apparently

Commentary Page Five

• air strike/air raid
• nouns as verbs
• further or farther?
• we'll see
• luv
• lurve
• animal names as verbs
• Christmas trivia
• bug's lives
• staying brite
• revert back
• -ise or -ize?
• comply with or comply to?
• opportunity
• specially or especially?

Commentary Page Six

• a friend of mine, etc
• firstable (and secondable)
• habitable or inhabitable?
• inflict or afflict?
• beg the question
• irregardless
• the idea of or the idea to?
• pussyfooting around
• unspectacular
• prevaricate and procrastinate
• reticent or reluctant?
• homogeneous or homogenous?
• consist of or consist in?
• adhesion or adherence?
• security blanket

Commentary Page Seven

• Is time little or short?
• soundings
• sea change
• Is "quality" an adjective?
• quality time
• pet peeve
• interested to vs. interested in
• young blood
• attitude problem
• deserving causes
• the point at issue
• What's the problem?
• using the computer
• more on using the computer
• Do you computer?

Commentary Page Eight

• mouse potatoes
• potter or putter
• query roundup
• etymologies
• soapboxes and bandwagons
• can of worms
• the exception that proves the rule
• jaunt or junket?
• from bombs to movies
• skedaddle, scarper and scoot
• (computer) data is vs. data are
• When is a used car not a used car?
• quite/almost
• going south
• going south again

Commentary Page Nine

• a lulu of a question
• the whole shebang
• jollies
• tweenagers and kidults
• killer jobs
• skivvies
• dogs
• knocking them dead
• hoi polloi
• more meaning reversals
• Sunday best
• tootling/tooling along
• robber barons
• uber
• strait and narrow?

Commentary Page Ten

• meister
• to have/get a sense that
• fraternity
• nailing your colours to the mast
• blue skies
• chips and chippies
• As far as X
• home in on or hone in on?
• they, them and their with singular subjects
• monger
• twocking
• Far be it from me to ...
• to have finished or to be finished?
• take a walk, have a walk, or go for a walk?
• out of pocket

Commentary Page Eleven

• somewhat of a mystery
• Are you up for it?
• discombobulate

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