The United States federal government has one very progressive law on copyright. Since 1895 it has no
The letter Y at the end of a word has four possible vowel sounds. These are long I, Long E, Long A a
The letter Y rarely gives us a consonant sound in the middle of a word. Instead it will usually be a
The letter Y at the front of a word stands for the Y-consonant-sound (IPA: /j/). In Old and Middle E
In the last two articles, I wrote warning stories about children who went to university early, skipp
Last time I wrote about someone who was envious of a child who went to university early, skipping mo
Someone was reading a news story about a twelve-year-old who skipped most of secondary school and go
A Hong Kong restaurant advertised that their Christmas buffet would have Christmas pudding. Tha
There is a war of words over the definitions of the words custard and pudding. Native speakers do no
Both long U and long OO sounds are spelt with a magic e and the digraphs EW and UE.1 The English lon
Words that begin with the letter U have a very general spelling/pronunciation pattern in common word
In the last article I looked at magic e and the long U sound. This time I will look at the long U di