"Go hang a salami, i'm a lasagna hog!"
-Jon Agee
What of these common ones that I came across?
Madam, am Adam
and
Able was I ere I saw Elba. (attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte)
I speak Queens English with recieved pronunciation, and can tell you that in fact, mine and my wife's dinner is what I would say, or perhaps, my wife and I's if I were speaking informally with friends.
"Me, too" will be clear, but I believe the pronoun should be "I." You could say, "I, too, can't understand . . ." Another option that might sound better is "Nor I."
I am trying to fill the skills section of my CV and I am looking for a word saying "I'm good at knowing what I have to learn and self teaching it myself". Also, what is the best EuroPass CV section to include this in?
Social skills and competences
Organisational skills and
competences
Technical...
Can Excerpt and Excerption replace each other in a particular sentence and give the same meaning? For example, there are two sentences:
He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings.
and
He presented excerptions from William James' philosophical writings.
Do both these no...
The question asks it all really. When referring to a master's degree, do you use an apostrophe or not? That is, is it "a master's" or "a masters"?
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New England boiled dinner is the basis of a traditional New England meal, consisting of corned beef or a smoked "picnic ham" shoulder, with cabbage and added vegetable items, often including potato, rutabaga, parsnip, carrot, white turnip and onion. When using a beef roast, this meal is often known simply as corned beef and cabbage even with the addition of other vegetables. A similar Newfoundland dish is called a Jiggs dinner, named for the character in Bringing Up Father. When prepared with a ham shoulder, this meal is often referred to as smoked shoulder.
Corned beef and cabbage
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Bolt is a 2008 American computer-animated adventure/action comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and is its 48th animated feature. It is the first film directed by Chris Williams (who previously worked on Mulan and The Emperor's New Groove) and Byron Howard (who previously worked on Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear). The film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film's plot centers on a small white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a tel...
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