I don't normally answer my own question, but in this case I feel compelled to do so. FumbleFingers' answer — the only answer this question has received — while well-argued and not incorrect, feels like the answer of someone who is faced with a problem he recognizes but cannot solve, and so falls ...

I am not sure which form is correct. I have a table in MS Excel containing my emails that I have sent or received. First collumn is called "email", second is called "subject", third "message" aso. One of the collumns is called "Sent date", so I know when I sent this email and one "Received date...

A friend of mine uses both an exclamation mark and a comma in his letter saluations, like so: Hi George!, I have never seen this before, and was wondering if it's grammatically kosher. Thoughts?

Context: an old (70+ years old) Londoner is being interviewed about his past as a lighterman on the River Thames and says the following: Three big wharves there, they've flattened, all gone. One of them we called the stinker wharf. They made bones. It used to pen and ink when you went by ther...

Proposed Q&A site for who want to know about Shia Islam to compare and find real Islam and God among sects of Muslims. also for who want to know about political ideologies of Shia countries and groups for example (not limited to) Iran, Hezbollah and other Shia countries.

Currently in definition.

This will be fixed in the next deploy.

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I believe the speakers are using this native American word. From Wikipedia re: Lakota language: "Hau kola", literally, "Hello, friend," is the most common greeting, and was transformed into the generic motion picture American Indian "How!", just as t...