No - it was a graphic about how many officers have been shot this year.

Please help settle an argument I'm having at work........

Steve noted that ComEd will want both shutdowns - the church and the rectory - completed at the same time.

Steve noted that ComEd would want both shutdowns - the church and the rectory - completed at the same time.

If it'll happen (or you're under the impression it'll happen), it's will, and if you're discussing a hypothetical or conditions are involved or something, it's would.

"888 poker.net we play different"

I was thinking that perhaps there is a way to interpret "Everybody is not bright" to mean "Not everybody is bright". Assume that "everybody" refers to all people as a whole, i.e. one entity, just like John is one entity in "John is not bright".

Thus "Everybody is not bright" would mean "The entire population as a whole isn't bright, either because all individuals aren't bright, or because only some individuals aren't.

I agree that this is an extremely twisted and convoluted way of interpreting the sentence in question, but just perhaps it can somehow be logically acceptable.

At least they're selling sausage biscuits for a dollar. Pick me up a couple joker, and put it on the tab of whatever I owe you.

wtf is a sausage biscuit? sounds like a euphemism to me

I know in Britain a biscuit is what in the USA is called a cookie or cracker. In the USA, a biscuit is a warm, muffin-like, buttermilk-based bread product inside which we put eggs, sausage, bacon, cheese, stuff like that -- for breakfast.

You're picture, its making me hungry.

I see what you did there.

.

Drove by homeless guy today in an intersection with a cardboard sign that read "I'd rather beg then borrow or steal" lol

Inorite. Everyone knows you should borrow or steal first so you can set your begging quotas properly.

That's what I was saying

What's the correct rule for "a" vs "an" when it's put before a word like "historic"? I seem to remember being taught that if the next word is pronounced with a vowel sound first, we use "an", and if it's a consonant it's "a".

I've been seeing it as "an historic day" from educated articles and/or people but when I pronounce the word (midwest US accent), I definitely make an H sound, and for me, saying "an historic day" seems awkward and difficult. However I believe with other accents (English comes to mind), they generally leave out the leading H sound on their words: "history" is more like "istory" and "I haven't" becomes more "I avven't" so this would make sense.

Can someone educate me? thx

Two days ago I received a note with instructions on it from the head guy in my building saying "Put the name on the write". This is a guy who is about 60 and I would bet only has ever been exposed to English. My reaction is just "Is this for real?" How many times in his life has he seen this word? I'm guessing in the tens of thousands. But STILL, he does not know the different between write and right????????

Comeeee oooon man

/rant

There's a discussion on a vs. an historic starting here and continuing for a couple of days. I'm in the a-historic camp and believe that the an-historic camp will be slaughtered by grizzly bears.

Use "a" before a word beginning with H only when it is voiced as a glottal fricative (throat restricted), as in "hot." Use "an" when the H is unvoiced (breathy, with throat open), as in "hello."

Generally, H at the beginning of a word is only voiced if the vowel after it is stressed. If you say HIST-or-ic, it should be preceded by "a," but standard English pronunciation is hist-OR-ic, so one should use "an."

Ello? Who pronounces it like that?

No, not "ello." Unvoiced just means that you don't vibrate your vocal cords, not that you don't pronounce it. English has two "h" sounds. One is more emphatic than the other, and they sound remarkably similar. The one in "hello" has an open throat, like when you are breathing on glasses before you clean them. The one in "hot" has a more restricted throat that brings the tone and emphasis up slightly.

No, they are exactly the same. You're not a native English speaker, are you?

Massage Therapist!