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It's an idomatic usage.

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In Japanese private highschool, kids know that they cannot fail. They know that at the end of private JHS they are guaranteed a place in the affiliated private SHS. They know that they cannot fail SHS. They know they are guaranteed a place a the affiliated university. They know that it is virually i...

As far as as I know, Japan and Hong Kong have same sort of programs which are called JET and NET. In those two countries, assisntant language teachers(ALT) from English-speaking countries have to be qualified. For example, Japan accept more than 6000 ALTs a year on JET program. I need to compare mo...

The term "Anti-American" (but especially "anti-Americanism") is commonly used in Canada by the right-wing Conservative Party, its members and the people who vote for them to describe all the other parties, the CBC, and anybody who has anything to do with anything that seperates Canada from the US. I...

Some time ago Metal56 linked to an article by a teacher at the British Council in Estonia, who had basically published online a rehash of Lewis combined with attacks on Swann and some added inaccuracies of the author's own devising. I attacked the paper as being 'hopelessly amateurish' and drew the...

Linguists are debated as to whether Turkish and Japanese are related (as well as Japanese and Korean and therefore Turkish with Korean), but I've never heard anyone say that Turkish is in the Sino-Tibetan family (Mandarin, all the Chinese "dialects" plus Burmese and Tibetan). I think you are thinkin...

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back: Han Solo: bla bla bla (can't remember, Han and Leia were arguing) Princess Leia (sp?): I'd sooner kiss a wookie. Han Solo: Yeah? I can arrange that! You could use a good kiss! [storms off down the hall] So you could also say Assistant Manager: Mark'll send the letter ...

The grammatical structure of a language encompasses the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relationships within the sentence. "Usage" refers to the conventions that govern the way the language is used in a language community. Do you agree? Yes. I agree that usage and the g...

*** quote from Lorikeet: Some of my students correctly pronounce the reduced form of "a" as in "a book" (usually written as a schwa). This is actually the same as the "u" sound in "cup" although not stressed. *** (my work computer won't let me use the "quote" button. ) Interesting. Where I'm from th...

:o OH! I was editing my original post when the reply came in. So maybe the suggestion of starting at OW and going down might help. I just found a page with Polish volwel phonemes listed, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/pol-uni.htm And there isn't the upside down 'v' sound. But maybe your studen...

You would get more responses by putting this on the Pronunciation Forum. [edited to add: I'm assuming here that the student can actually tell the difference between the two sounds. Some of my previous students (Spanish speaking) could not hear the difference in vowel sounds between /bit/ and /beet/ ...

If it was a vocational school, shouldn't it have been called a "college" before and shouldn't it now be called a "university"? That's how it works in Canada where 'colleges' teach vocational arts and universities teach more theororetical information as well as being the institutions attended in orde...