I know, beyond just means outside a limit or further away. E.g. when I say something is beyond compare, it means it cannot be compared to anything. But in the following, I'm not sure if I understand what does each of these phrases really mean Beyond good Beyond bad Beyond evil If something i...

What is the difference between bucket and pail? Is there a distinction between the shape of a bucket and the shape of a pail? Are buckets and pails made of different materials? Is there a difference between substances carried in buckets and pails? Is there dialectal variation in the use of thes...

Learn about ExternalInterface and use it to catch keystroke events and echo them to the page. Or just use it to set the focus to the page, call something like document.body.focus().

I have a flash app in my page, and when a user interacts with the flash app, the browser/html/javascript stops receiving keyboard input. For example, in Firefox control-t no longer opens a new tab. However, if I click on part of the page that isn't flash, the browser starts receiving these ev...

Consider a pot of soup. It's contents are static. Once you start stirring it the state of the contents changes rapidly. Once you stop stirring the state of the pot returns to something approximating the original state. What is this property called? Most things don't have this property. When you...

I want to make sure that a person, I've got a business meeting with for later today, has not forgotten about the meeting and is going to show up. I could text her, but what should the text say?

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I need to research more about this game strategies, but I don't know what is its name in English. The game is like this (the gadget is just named Picture Puzzle): The objective is to slide the blank cell to the lower-right cell. What exactly is its name? And is it considered a board-game?

As i'm not a native speaker, I want to know how odd does a second form of verb used with 'did' sound like? Is there any way to know? In the following sentence For example: "How did she knew I had a car?"

If I say, "How did she knew about it?" Would it be correct? If you use search engine for "did knew", you get hundred thousand results. Are they incorrect? I'm confused about this grammar structure.

Is it OK to call things you like crap? My friend saw the video on my page on Facebook and she said Wow! That crap is awesome. But how can we talk about enjoying something, what we really like, and call it crap?

There's an instructive usage note on this at TheFreeDictionaryOnline: awhile Usage Note: *Awhile*, an adverb, is never preceded by a preposition such as for, but the two-word form a while may be preceded by a preposition. In writing, each of the following is acceptable: stay awhile; stay fo...

Does anyone know anything about how the meaning of "just about" came to have opposite meanings in the UK and North America. For example, in the UK, The team just about won. means that the team won, but it was close (ie The team barely won.). However, in North America, it means that the team almo...

In a week time I'm taking an exam. I want to know whether I can say 'I have chosen' or not. It is present perfect too. The task is: You would like to go on a party. Look at the picture and decide which outfit would suit you best. Justify your opinion. The problem is that English is my foreign l...

Summary: Consider the current version of the North American Scrabble® Players Association's Official Tournament and Club Word List and Long List as influential (and authoritative for Scrabble® Tournament play) on the question of whether or not a word of 15 letters or less is an American English w...