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A correspondent writes about the use of the indefinite article before uncountable nouns. He has read (in the Oxford Advanced Learner's D...

The correspondents that motivate these posts have multiplied over the past few weeks, as the realization dawns among teachers and students...

A correspondent writes to ask about the linguistic equivalent of the Olympic Games. He means the International Linguistics Olympiad. This is...

A correspondent writes to ask whether he can write advices instead of pieces of advice in a report. Advice is certainly one of those un...

A correspondent writes from the US to ask whether I've encountered the expression ‘a forgiving recipe’. He heard it recently, looked i...

As the situation caused by my family illness is slowly resolving (successfully), I am dipping my toe into the academic water again, albeit t...

A correspondent thinks he hears at all used ‘at the end of every question one is asked nowadays’. He comments: ‘I reckon it is the bad habi...