A woman shopper returned her Xmas tree to Costco wholesaler in Santa Clara, Calif., on January 4 for a refund - "because it is dead." Hilarious! The woman managed to get her money back in full despite taking the battered fir back a full ten days after Xmas day.  

Q.: Why did the scarecrow win an award?

A.: He was outstanding in his field.

Q.: Why don't they play poker in the jungle?

A.: There are too many cheetahs.

Woman: My daughter’s fixing to get married.

Friend: Congratulations! When is the wedding?

Woman: Soon as she finds a fellow.

Ampersand (&). Use the ampersand when it is part of a company's formal name: Stop & Shop, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In formal writing the ampersand should not otherwise be used in place of "and."

Apostrophe ('). Follow these guidelines:

To Make Possessives:

Plural nouns not ending in S, add 's: children's toys, men's shoes.

Recommended shows to watch and / or listen to in order to improve your English listening skills, especially when it comes to American English:

The Laura Ingraham Angle, Judge Jeanine Show, and Greg Gutfeld Show on Fox News.

The Rush Limbaugh Show on EIB.

The Alex Jones Channel.

The Michael Savage Nation radio talk show.

The Joe Rogan Experience.

There’s an ongoing tag-question issue in modern English: What’s the correct tag after a statement like “I’m right…”? There are some linguists who say that the tag “am I not?” is too prissy, excessively proper, affectedly correct. And “aren’t I?” too British, while “ain’t I?” is just substandard American slang and not acceptable in educated speech. Who knows? Y...]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:36:50 GMT https://speakfreely.1w.lv/?s=54&id=312 https://speakfreely.1w.lv/?s=65&id=309

A diacritic is any mark, point, or sign added or attached over, under, or through a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc. Accents, carets, hačeks, cedillas, circumflexes, diereses, macrons and tildes are common in such languages as Latvian, Spanish, French, and other European languages, but to a much lesser extent in English.

A diacritic is any mark, point, or sign added or attached over, under, or through a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc. Accents, carets, hačeks, cedillas, circumflexes, diereses, macrons and tildes are common in such languages as Latvian, Spanish, French, and other European languages, but to a much lesser extent in English.

Present Tense:                              Past Tense:

 I do                                             I did

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