Possible Duplicate: “It is they who lied” or “it is them who lied?” What would be grammatically the correct sentence to write: "It was I who contacted her" "It was me who contacted her" And if both are correct, what difference is there? Thanks in advance

Hi, I must admit that I'm unsure whether or not this is the right forum for this question. It may belong to statistics and AI also. If there exists a more suitable forum, then tell me :) The thing is, I want to analyse a lot of English text for an AI project (Confabulation theory). Is there a o...

It is very common in other languages to use the literal equivalents of "How-manyth". But some how English seems to not have that word? How do I ask a kid? How-manyth son are you? (To know whether he is first or second born) Maybe one more example, Mr. XYZ is how-manyth president of th...

I am the third daughter of my parents. How to frame a question that is answered with the above sentence?

I want to make a question having an answer as follows: 5 is the third prime number. The bold part is the answer. How to phrase the question?

I was thinking about how when the Italian Fascists were in power they often turned loanwords into Italian words. They wanted to conserve the Italian nature of the language: Under Fascism an Italian chauffeur became an autista; soccer turned into calcio; a bar was rechristened qui si beve (her...

When someone says, "This is my first [forray] into the art of dancing," what is the correct spelling of [forray] and what exactly does it mean? I have only ever heard the phrase in a high-society context. Tag suggestions are welcomed.

It's not a pun, it's not a syllepsis. Is there a word for false-puns of this sort?

In spanish, it's called "arroba". I saw this question, and it says it's called "commercial at" according to Wikipedia. A lot of languages have a single word name for this. Is there any single word name for the "@" symbol?

How can I pronounce @ symbol: At / At the rate? Can I use it in a sentence? Please explain with an example.

Do you just pronounce it as "at"?

I've heard a couple of pronunciations "macra may", "ma craym", "ma craym". So, which is the correct one?

Let's say I want to write a question here at ELU about how to deal with punctuation in the case of embedded quotes. How would I deal with this three layered beast of a quote? "Something like "Is this meaning okay: 'The police suck because they are bad because they only want my money'?", perhaps?...

I'm quite unsure regarding the usage of single quotation marks (') and double quotation marks (") in English. I had thought that "s were usually used to quote sentences from passages/given sources, nouns/things ("Westminster Bridge", "alliteration", or "voice" regarding its usage in poetry), as ...

Studying phrasal verbs I found break in meaning as interruption. My teacher suggested that it can be also used in news as breaking news, but usually the midia use the gerund form. Actually, both sounds very similar in speech so I was wondering if breaking is an evolution of break in.

I was just wondering what the origins of "breaking news" or "we broke the story" are.

Hi, very often, I find myself writing about a user, an anonymous person, whose gender, amongst other things, I don't know. Right after mentioning this abstract user, I need to make a reference to the said person, and I often end up using he/she, as a shorter version of he or she. Example: ...