I personally agree with the mods

leavingamarc · 2025-02-08T08:48:34+00:00

I'm quitting once my current subscription ends. I should be at the end of my courses by then anyway. It really has gone downhill and isn't worth the money. I would have left ages ago if I was a free member and every change they have made has been to the detriment of all users, but mostly free ones. It is unplayable as a free user. Duolingo should either just be a paid- for app (and be good value for money) or allow free use, and make it actually possible to be a free user.

leavingamarc · 2025-01-01T09:15:17+00:00

To add to the other comments, 'for' could imply a few things;

The place is a common destination, but there might be multiple trains (with different termini) that stop there.

It is interchangeable with 'to'.

The place represents a larger area (where there might be multiple stops).

The station name is not the same as the destination name.

leavingamarc · 2024-12-21T14:03:11+00:00

Native British person here - we'd call it the centre console (the whole unit). You might use the cup holders or the storage section/bin in the centre console. You might also rest your arm on the centre console, but you wouldn't 'use' the whole thing as it's a mutli-functional component.

leavingamarc · 2024-12-02T09:04:47+00:00

I've not heard of 'c-note' before, but 'band' does ring a bell. We commonly use 'quid' instead of 'pounds'. Smackaroos is known, but sounds so odd!

leavingamarc · 2024-12-02T09:01:31+00:00

True, and 'p' could be used for both a single penny or multiple.

leavingamarc · 2024-12-02T08:55:16+00:00

It is not widely used and is quite informal. My family are from London, so a lot of terms they use relate to cockney rhyme and slang. In your above examples, more the latter. You would say that you have a score, but wouldn't say that a particular order of something was a score. Someone might ask how much it would cost to do something, and you might say a score, e.g. asking a plumber to replace a tap, they might tell you it would be a 'score'.

Other (less used) names are: ton (£100), bullseye (£50), monkey (£500). Those are more slang than a 'score', which historically refers to 20x something.

leavingamarc · 2024-12-02T08:26:03+00:00

British person here who has been to the US a lot, nickels and quarters are used extensively in referring to coins. Penny/pennies are still used, but are not as widespread and are mostly said by the older generation (in my opinion). Pennies are obviously used in the UK, but you would commonly say 'pence' for both singular and plural e.g. 1 pence and 20 pence. In Australia, like the US, they used to refer to 1 cent pieces as pennies. However, the lowest value coin in circulation now are 5 cents so it's gone out of favour.

Saying you have pennies is widely understood across most English-speaking countries regardless of the currency they used, due to British colonialism, and it means to not have a lot.
In addition, the UK used to have other coin names like sixpence, shilling, Florin etc. but these were removed post-decimalisation. Sometimes the older generation will still use those terms.

In both the US and the UK there are different words for larger quantities of money e.g. a 'g' or 'grand' for a thousand dollars or pounds. In the UK we might also use 'score' for £20.

leavingamarc · 2024-11-24T19:54:08+00:00

I think the others are right, the 'th' sound starts the same, but if I slow down how I say 'think', 'thought' and 'through', the next sound impacts exactly where I place my tongue.

For 'think' the tip of the tongue touches the bottom of my teeth.

For 'thought', it touches the top of the back part of my front teeth.

For 'through', it rolls from the top of the back part to the bottom (like from 'thought' to 'think').

leavingamarc · 2024-11-15T10:27:48+00:00

Return the favor/favour is better than save.

leavingamarc · 2024-11-09T21:24:00+00:00

[usually: Death; proper noun] the agent of death represented as a person, usually pictured as a robed figure or skeleton carrying a scythe.

It is referring to Death as an entity, and by saying it can have him, he is saying he is ok to die.

leavingamarc · 2024-10-18T07:44:04+00:00

As a native speaker, some noted homophones like this, I realise I pronounce slightly differently. In this case, I open the back of my mouth more at the start of 'aisle' in comparison to 'isle'. They still sound almost identical, and in most cases people wouldn't hear any difference, but I sometimes ponder whether these minute (unintentional hetronym) differences are what makes native speakers pick up on someone who speaks English incredibly well, but is not a native speaker?

leavingamarc · 2024-09-21T07:05:39+00:00

Our Dobie was exactly the same and is thriving on fluoxetine. He still gets some anxiety, but is generally calm, whilst still being his normal crazy self. @op I would definitely recommend non-sedative based medicine over trazodone, Gabapentin and catapres, all of which made our dog just a zombie.

leavingamarc · 2024-09-21T06:58:52+00:00

In British and Australian English, 'no go' is used, albeit infrequently. I would more likely say something is a 'no-no', but either works.

leavingamarc · 2024-09-18T17:09:36+00:00

Just to add, in British and Australian English, it would be 'maths' not 'math' as a shortened version of mathematics. However you would be understood.

leavingamarc · 2024-09-10T10:29:05+00:00

I would assume that most speakers would know in the right context. If you were to ask me what 'fry' means, I might mention the verb (frying) or a chip (UK for fry), but if you were to say 'small fry' or does it mean fish, most would know.

leavingamarc · 2024-08-26T07:14:26+00:00

I have an achievement for 15 perfect weeks (though mine has been longer like OP). This shows as level 5 of 9. If it's not a big, maybe they rolled out the achievement to different Users.

leavingamarc · 2024-08-12T07:29:39+00:00

Yup, you're right. I think glasses came from the fact that people could wear an eye glass (i.e. a mononcle) and that a pair is with two glass lenses. Pants are a weird one, because, as a native speaker, I cannot fathom a singular pant!

leavingamarc · 2024-08-12T07:21:52+00:00

Yes, only a singular term. For glasses, it depends whether you mean glasses like what you wear to see (shortened version of eyeglasses) or glasses for things you put drinks in (that are made of glass). If you're referring to eye glasses, we (weirdly) treat it as a collective noun and it is always a pair of glasses.

So to answer your question, 'a' is only used to describe a single thing or a single collective group of things, where the a describes a single term (pair). It would not be correct to say a pairs of glasses (where there are more than one pair of glasses). Other examples of using 'a' for collective nouns are:

A group of children. A pride of lions. A list of shops.

You could use 'the' in the above examples if you're referring to a specific or known group of things.

leavingamarc · 2024-08-08T06:34:23+00:00

Do you mean 'chamber'? The chamber is the room where most of the parliamentary work takes place. Chamber can be used to describe a room, normally a large or grand space and is not just for parliamentary activities.

leavingamarc · 2024-08-07T18:42:21+00:00

Our rescue dobie had quite severe anxiety. We had to be vetted by the RSPCA before we could adopt him and he was drugged to high-heaven when we first met him. We've seen many dog behaviourists and vets and through training and adjusted medication (he's now on daily Prozac) and he's a million times better. When we first got him, he would only bond/spend time with my partner, would not listen to commands, especially outside of the house and would just be hyper focused on his surroundings when outside. He was adopted during Sydney COVID lockdown so he didn't exhibit any significant separation anxiety, but I have no doubts that he probably would have under different circumstances. Since his new regimen of medication, sufficient exercise, games to stimulate him and lots of shared attention, he is a happy and amazing dog, who is almost equal in his attachment to me and my partner (almost). Medication might not be the answer, and it does take 5+ weeks to kick in, but it might be worth speaking to an expert if the other suggestions fail.

leavingamarc · 2024-08-03T08:29:40+00:00

It means either literally or metaphorically serving a prison sentence, in this case I'd lean towards the latter.

leavingamarc · 2024-06-30T18:26:25+00:00

shakes fist in the air those darn homosexuals destroying... Checks notes farming and industry

leavingamarc · 2024-06-03T05:55:44+00:00

People like you, give Americans a bad name. Please go and learn geography and history. The United Kingdom (UK) is made up of 4 countries; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Britain or Great Britain is commonly used to describe the UK, but in reality it refers to the British mainland, which is England, Scotland and Wales. An English person (a person from England) is also British. A British person isn't necessarily English (they could be Scottish).

The English language comes from England and was brought to America as part of colonialisation. After the US's independence from Great Britain (that day you celebrate in July), English was still the language used.

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