Redlegg
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Caramel
Been
Bowie Knife
crayon
Who is right....
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Sherron
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Crayfish... obviously crayfish.
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Gecko
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Crawdads
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If you air your dirty linen in public, expect people to comment on the skid marks!
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Redlegg
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Fresh water cockroaches.....
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english7
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I say "pop"
and car mul
I've noticed people around here are going back to Her b, not erb.
How do you use a word that begins with an "h" after the word "an"? Example, An historic event just took place (or a historic) or a herb of great value is the citronella (or an herb).
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Redlegg
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It is definitely soda here. I have heard it called pop, but the funniest one to me was coke. "Would you like a coke ? Sure, ok, what kind, and then they would go down the list of pepsi products....
it was always erb growing up, but do hear both now.
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gr8Dad
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Herb (with the H) is what you put in food, Erb is what you put in a JOINT, LOL.
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Why give a "senior" discount, they have had plenty of time to raise the money...
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Sherron
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"I say "pop"
and car mul"
Same here.
"I've noticed people around here are going back to Her b, not erb.
How do you use a word that begins with an "h" after the word "an"? Example, An historic event just took place (or a historic) or a herb of great value is the citronella (or an herb)."
I wouldn't use "an" with historic or herb, at least in written English... it does flow a lot better than "a" though, not sure if that's "istoric" and "erb" those came to be? I've never heard "an history" though... does that kill my written versus spoken theory? I believe "a" is proper for both though... how would you treat it in a paper?
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Curmudgeon
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Crawfish aside, what's happened to this place. No step posts and damn few posts at all anywhere?
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english7
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"how would you treat it in a paper?"
I let it go either way. I tell students the old rule is increasingly out of use, but I do like to hear "an historic" (stress on tor') and "a history" (syllable his' stressed).
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