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How often "are" you "showering"???
I just did a random searching and this question appear in many post. Shouldn't it be "How often **do** you **shower**?
What does ts mean
this is just a random meme, i looked it up and apparently AI said it means talk soon/thats serious/tough shit or even trans people (like a ts girl?) im just asking what does ts mean in this particular context?
Can someone help me find the source for the other pronunciation of "Valkyrie" that I've been using?
I pronounce it as "vawk-ire" the "aw" being the same sound you use for the word "law" and "ire" like the country of "Ireland". I've been speaking English my whole life though I live in a place that's part of the outer circle of English speaking countries. My whole life I've been pronouncing it as "vawk-ire". I've learned the language almost entirely by myself from casual English media, like YouTube and socialising in the internet. I've known the word existing and been pronouncing it this way since I was a wee child but never for the life of me could I find out where I got this pronunciation from. Every person I asked insist I must have made it up at some point in my life but the way I've been learning the language says otherwise, all my knowledge came from other people. Google provides 0 answers to this pronunciation of the word ever existing and my curiousity just gets stronger as the years go by. Where the hell did I learn this???
size of animal shit
In English, we often compare something to animal shit to insult it, but is there a grammatical distinction between dog shit, horse shit, and bull shit etc.? Can we create new abusive expressions based on those ? for example, rabbit poop or elephant poop?
Pronouncing au.
I see the word aura a lot, but it seems to be pronounced very differently from case to case. I hear "oh-rah» often, but to me the "au" would sound more like "ow", though not as harsh. I know in English it is more of an "o" as I hear names like Aurora pronounced "oror-ah", or Australia as "oss-tralia". Are there any instances of an au in English pronounced like ow? I'm curious!
Never use 'to' after (Request/Recommend/Insist/Suggest/Dare/Demand)?
I am starting to notice a trend where native speakers avoid using 'verb+someone+to'' structure after certain verbs. Specifically, I hear 'I suggest (that) you do it' instead of 'I suggest you to do it'. 'I recommended (that) he go' instead of 'I recommended him to go'. 'I demand (that) he leave' instead of 'I demand him to leave'. 'How dare he speak to me like that' 'I request (that) you disappear' instead of 'I request you to disappear'. So always use 'that + he/she/they/it + base form of verb' after these verbs? Am I on the right track?
been in the US since I was six, told I have an accent and sound nasally
Hi, I've been in the US since I was six, I'm seventeen now. People tell me I have an accent and that I sound nasally and like a prepubescent kid, I'm originally from Egypt and my native language is Arabic. What about it gives me away? How can I fix it? I put some voice clips below, I used this accent website and it reads me as either Arabic or Hindi/Urdu. [https://voca.ro/1hr4i2KGUrzr](https://voca.ro/1hr4i2KGUrzr) [https://voca.ro/12FwxSZh4whv](https://voca.ro/12FwxSZh4whv) [https://voca.ro/13VYo0hA8dQs](https://voca.ro/13VYo0hA8dQs)
What's the difference between a schema and a scheme?
I guess the question speaks for itself.
What is the feeling when your skin is feeling "dull"?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1hzcmma/what_is_the_feeling_when_your_skin_is_feeling_dull/
Does “over” mean “away” here? Can we say “…three towns away.”?
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