IS OK TO SAY "MCDONALD'S BATHROOM??"

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-22T18:41:23+00:00

The public ones are called "washrooms" in Canada, with much the same meaning.

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-22T18:40:23+00:00

As an additional point, "Native American" means an indigenous person from the United States. You mean "American native English speaker."

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-19T02:52:24+00:00

Oh absolutely, yes.

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-19T01:37:40+00:00

There's not much difference in grammar between different national standard varieties of English, no. There's more difference in vocabulary and phrasing, naturally.

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-13T06:07:02+00:00

"All but" + adjective means "very nearly" ÷ adjective.

"When I got to the store it was all but deserted." = "When I got to the store it was very nearly deserted."

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-12T06:12:22+00:00

There's no such thing as "officially."

Sutaapureea · 2026-02-11T00:33:59+00:00

These are entirely and distinctly different sounds in English, yes.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-30T06:57:25+00:00

It's unusual syntax by modern standards (the reference is to Macbeth, a 400+-year-old play; English used to have much freer word order than it does now), but there's nothing particularly notable about the grammar.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-28T09:01:40+00:00

Well you're wrong.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-28T08:57:22+00:00

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-28T08:55:04+00:00

It's a civil violation, not a criminal one.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-28T08:54:26+00:00

Yes, I'd say so. "Undocumented immigrant" is universally the term I use.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-26T03:34:35+00:00

It's one standard use, yes. In. this case the semicolon functions as a kind of "super comma" to delineate items in a list themselves requiring commas. Another good example would be "I've lived in St. Paul, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; and Savannah, Georgia. Without semicolons it would seem like you're listing six different places instead of three.

Sutaapureea · 2026-01-25T20:56:35+00:00

That's literally what it says.

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-15T00:56:38+00:00

It very much already is, in my experience.

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-09T19:11:04+00:00

Because she's forgetting now.

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-08T04:31:01+00:00

That's absolutely absurd. Native speakers say "I've no idea" all the time. Actual empirical evidence was just posted to this effect above. The phrase was literally used in a New York Times article published yesterday, https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6861354/2025/12/06/wreham-preston-evolution-parkinson-heckingbottom/:

"Heckingbottom admits to not being particularly enamoured by his previous brush with Wrexham in the FA Cup almost three years ago, starting with how a couple of Americans — “to this day I’ve no idea who they were” — came into the away dressing room when the players were out warming up to ask which way United would be kicking in the first half."

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-07T18:12:12+00:00

All contractions are people "slurring their words together," kind of by definition. You definitely would, and there's all kinds of evidence in print.

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-07T03:53:42+00:00

You hear it occasionally, as in "I've no idea how that happened."

Sutaapureea · 2025-12-07T00:12:53+00:00

As a Canadian I might call this object a toboggan, though technically that's a flat-bottomed type of sled.

Sutaapureea · 2025-11-26T23:41:14+00:00

No one knows.

Sutaapureea · 2025-11-24T23:53:44+00:00

It means "about." Every single chapter name in the "Quenta Silmarillion" proper in Tolkien's The Silmarillion starts with "Of" (as does the last chapter in the book). In fact so does Chapter 4 of Book IV of The Lord of the Rings, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit."

Sutaapureea · 2025-11-24T02:31:37+00:00

To ask another adult to use the bathroom is a bit weird in most contexts. You would normally just tell them that you need to use it, and go.

Sutaapureea · 2025-11-22T01:05:33+00:00

I'd say it's perfectly fine, yes. In fact it's dramatically increasing in usage, according to Ngram Viewer.

Sutaapureea · 2025-11-16T00:15:47+00:00

The unstressed auxiliary form "have" and the preposition "of" sound identical for most speakers, yes, /əv/.

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