@Kos, @RegDwight, whichever of you wakes up first might like to tidy up the comment exchange on this answer. Now we've sorted out what each other meant, most of the comments don't need to stay there.
Which comes first in a sentence?
I know some word pairs such as bacon and eggs, where bacon always comes first. E.g:
Make me bacon and eggs for dinner, honey.
Cats and dogs are the two most common pets I know of. What is the preferred order?
1. Dogs are superior.
Don't put dogs and cats toget...
Strangely, Etymonline.com doesn't give an etymology.
I looked up Dictionary.com, and came up with:
1565–75; < Middle French hautbois, equivalent to haut high ( see haughty) + bois wood ( see bush1 )
So, how did this word "high wood" come to mean oboe?
Vielen Dank für die Korrektur Ich habe am Wochenende ein paar Transkript gelesen, wo es wurde augedeutet, dass jemand am Rande der 10k Grenze entdeckt worden war, um merere Sockpuppet zu benutzen.
Only a few dialects maintain the distinction between /hw/ and /w/, that is, distinguishing witch from which, wale from whale, and wine from whine. The WH sound, a voiceless labiovelar approximant, is written as /hw/ or sometimes /ʍ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The W sound is a voiced ...
So, just start pronouncing witch as hwitch, problem solved! :P
@RegDwight, I meant Vitaly. I'm the one who made the confusion.
I dread the day when FL&U will open. Most of the French forums haunted by native speakers are full of lower than common ideas expressed with poor vocabulary and spelled in a terrible way.
@Robusto Absolutely. I can put up a collection of videos of idiot Germans or Russians anytime. Most people are not bright. Anywhere. Just think YouTube comments. And then think how these are comments by people who can figure out how to switch on a PC, start a browser, navigate to YouTube, and post a comment. Them are not the least educated folks on the planet.
In the quote, "He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism"
What does resist mean?
to tolerate
to protest
What does vulgar prosperity mean?
obscene prosperity
ill mannered prosperity
What does ever mean?
always
occasionally
What does retrogrades...
> Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion and the largest Christian denomination, with estimates of 81-85% of the population belonging to this faith in the Philippines.
the Filipinos live in the slums (slums in Manila pictured above) in self-built “houses,” 4 square metres for a family of 10+, why? because they aren't getting involved in family planning, why? because contraception is “a sin against the Catholic church”
Look, why are we discussing the family planning of a random person on the other side of the planet? It's her choice. If she can live with it, we are not in the business of not being able to live with it.
@Cerberus An Italian friend of mine made the same observation. In fact, many of my friends have. On the Internet, communicating in English somehow becomes easier than communicating in your native tongue.
Strangely, Etymonline.com doesn't give an etymology.
I looked up Dictionary.com, and came up with:
1565–75; < Middle French hautbois, equivalent to haut high ( see haughty) + bois wood ( see bush1 )
So, how did this word "high wood" come to mean oboe?
In the quote, "He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism"
What does resist mean?
to tolerate
to protest
What does vulgar prosperity mean?
obscene prosperity
ill mannered prosperity
What does ever mean?
always
occasionally
What does retrogrades...
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