Lyrics from The National's Ada Stand inside an empty tuxedo with grapes in my mouth waiting for Ada I've not come across the phrase before, nor can I find an attributed meaning. One of the songmeanings forums suggests this means "unable to talk since one's mouth is full" Is that corre...

I stumbled across a list of rules that appealed to me: it's concise and direct. I like it. What are your thoughts?

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For the most part Internet is capitalized, less frequently it occurs uncapitalized. Is this a style issue or is one considered more correct. Subjectively, would the average reader consider using the uncapitalized version to be a mistake / display of poor English?

Hi all, when people say consumer-tech what exactly do they mean? what's a consumer-tech weblog / consumer-tech website (and why is it called that way) ?

I really hate the smug bastards that make these artificial words up!!!

The word bicycle is pronounced /'baɪsɪkəl/ (bahy-si-kuhl), like sickle. However, the words unicycle and motorcycle both have the -cycle pronounced as /-'saɪkəl/ (sahy-kuhl). Is there some sort of reason for this, or is this just a vagary of English pronunciation?

Is it true that hot water freezes faster than cold water and if so, what practical applications have there been found for this phenomenon?

At the beginning of sentence is a given. Here are some examples for each word. Should any be capitalised? If not, is there any situations where they should? The word "government" The government raised taxes. Thatcher was in government for a long time. The UK is having problems with its coalit...