Learn how to pronounce the ending of the many, many common English words that end with -ng in this short, free pronunciation class.
Have you ever been confused about when to use “a” and “an” before words beginning with “h”? Some of the most famous people in the world don’t use the rules properly. Here’s what the style guides say: Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usagesays that...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
beginning, commencement, start Anführungszeichen: 1. inverted comma, quotation mark, quote Angabe: 1. declaration, proclamation, statement Angebinde: 1. gift, present Angel: 1. hook Angelegenheit: 1. affair, business, business deal, case, matter Angelhaken: 1. hook Angelleine: 1. line ...
• Conservatives prop.n. (UK politics) The Conservative Party. CONVERSATIVE • conversative adj. (Dated) Relating to conversation with others; social.• conversative adj. (Dated) Chatty; inclined to talk.• CONVERSATIVE adj. ready to talk. NEOCONSERVATIVE • neoconservative n. (US) A ...
Synonyms for ROOT: source, origin, cradle, fountain, font, beginning, spring, wellspring; Antonyms of ROOT: eliminate, dislodge, eradicate, root (out), uproot, remove, expel, eject
The people outside the bar, a wonderful bunch, helped prop me on my feet, and somehow, on my own, I got into the passenger seat. At home, I fell asleep, then woke up to find a strange, wandering thing moving across my face. Five or ten seconds passed before I mushily realized th...
alsobook-case, "case with shelves for holding books," 1726, frombook(n.) +case(n.2). An Old English word for this wasbocfodder. book-end(n.) "prop for keeping books in position," 1907, frombook(n.) +end(n.). bookish(adj.) ...
My sore eyes could hardly keep lift. Should there have been toothpicks in my purse, I quite literally would have shoved them in my eyelids to prop them open. But with lack of toothpicks or a phone to dial, I sat down in the bustling train depot, shoved my worn leather bag with a ...
It is beginning to look very autumnal in the garden now, with the grasses – in particular the Miscanthus – at their peak. So that is where I started and I cut three sprigs of Miscanthus ‘Red Chief’. Turning towards the Moon Bed I just had to cut some of this Aster –Aster dumo...