We all love to hear about the trials and tribulations that others have experienced. We want to learn how someone overcame an obstacle, and found a way to move on. Personal essays allow those of us who have experienced life’s woes (and sometimes abundant joys), to share what we’ve learned, and to help lead others [...]
Posted in Language, Poems by Greg Ross on September 19th, 2009
I’m taught p-l-o-u-g-h
Shall be pronouncé “plow.”
“Zat’s easy w’en you know,” I say,
“Mon Anglais, I’ll get through!”
My teacher say zat in zat case,
O-u-g-h is “oo.”
And zen I laugh and say to him,
“Zees Anglais make me cough.”
He say, “Not ‘coo,’ but in zat word,
O-u-g-h is ‘off.’”
Oh, Sacre [...]
Though you may already know that lay is correct in both of the following sentences:
Everyday I lay my towel in the shade on the beach.
Yesterday I lay down in the shade on the beach.
You might not be aware that the following sentences are the equivalents after the tenses have been adjusted:
Yesterday I laid [...]