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Hey Tigertiger, thanks for reinventing the wheel ;-) I do not think it is strange that a group of people in a company would invent thier own phrases, I was just wondering if maybe it was correct English that I missed out on by not having studied economics (a problem for lots of Business English teac...

Hi, I have a whole company here in Germany where they all say spot instead of point to show decimals, ie 1.5 becomes one spot five instead of one point five. Has anybody heard this before? My students swear people from other companies do it too... They are advanced level and I told them "hey, if the...

Thanks Juan! Just in time for my next class with her too!

Hi, the same student as from my last post (I work full time and have maybe 50 students, but only this one gives me trouble!) She reckons "I musn't give you a refund if you haven't got a receipt" must be correct, as musn't means the same as not be allowed to, and "I am not allowed to give you a refun...

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Ah... the native speaker arrogance... I corrected a student of mine who consistently referred to health as healthiness. i.e. "You can work there if you have good healthiness" - which just sounds so wrong. She swore she had seen it in a dictionary, I said that was impossible. But I cannot find a site...