Should all muslims be removed from the electoral register. This would effectively bar them from politics in this country because you have to be on the list to stand for parliament. The fact that a...
I'm currently learning Greek and have a problem. In the lessons I'm using, the word for man is spelt ο άνδρας. However, I downloaded some grammar notes from the...
Occasionally, I receive junk e-mails that finish with a paragraph of nonsensical text. An actual example from today is shown below. Can someone tell me why this text is included and what it is...
Have I missed the point of these 'gifts' that are given by other people on your behalf. Here's the scenario. You turn up at my house on Christmas Day to be greeted with a glass of something and a...
I saw a sign in work with a list of Do's and Don'ts (sic). Do you spot the error here? Now if there is to be consistency in this phrase it should be either: Do's and Don't's (obviously wrong). Or: Dos...
What is the one food that you wouldn't or couldn't eat. It needs to be something that you've tried but just can't eat. Mine is goat's cheese. I've tried it a few times but every time it is just as...
I bought some porridge oats today so that the little Thomases can go to school with something warm inside them. On the box it says, 'Scott's Porage Oats'. I've never seen the word 'porage' before. Is...
This site has been turned into a pile of crap. When I first came here it was running normally. Since the Beta version has gone online even the old version runs tediously slowly. Every time I try to...
As someone alluded to last night, I am indeed on the payroll of the Answerbank. They hired me to try to improve the standard of grammar on the site and also to maximize the number of posts by being...
I went to see my Aunt today. She told me that yesterday she asked her husband Charlie to go out into the garden and cut a cabbage for tea. She told me that Uncle Charlie had been gone for about an...
What's the difference between Lewis Hamilton and the England football team?
Lewis Hamilton is the only one who will be in Europe with McClaren next summer.
Little Johnny was sitting on a park bench munching on one chocolate bar after another. After the 6th one, a man on the bench across from him said, "Son, you know eating all that chocolate isn't good...
It could be that I'm simply noticing more examples of apostrophe misuse than I used to. However, I do think that it is more widespread than it was. Several recent bad examples I have seen include the...
Why does AB have an american advert on its front page. I have just been asked to say how much I earn in a year in DOLLARS. Another question asked if I found a penny, would I pick it up. It shows a...
