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Yes Erik, we are most definitely in the vawz, varz and vayz territory. I rather suspected that one pronunciation was just as correct as the other!
And thank you Ken, I somehow did not not suspect that it could be a a UK/USA thing.

I enjoyed a lovely string quartet last night. The viola player did most of the talking referring to her instrument as a VEE -OLA . I have always called it a VYE -OLA , after all, her sister was playing a VYE -OLIN not a VEE -OLIN, but it set me thinking about which is correct, VEE-OLA or VYE-OLA ? P...

I prefer this construction, and note the "a".
She's over there in Starbucks having a coffee.
She's over there in Starbucks drinking a coffee.

I usually say, "Still standing!" or "On the right side of the grass", or being Welsh, "Tidy!".

Apparently there is a film called "Yesterday". A friend of mine went into a cinema with her husband and asked:
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"What are the times for Yesterday?
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"Today?"
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"No, tomorrow".
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Who said that English is an easy language?

a. He'll make things right again. means things were right at first, then went wrong. He will restore things to the way they were.
b. He'll make things right one more time. means things are continually going wrong but he will correct it one last time.

I think that this bloke is completely bonkers, but I would not want him to hear me calling him that!

Bonkers!

I would call it a bloody rip-off.
I would also have asked for the bill. Our American friends would probably ask for the check.
This is a cheque in the UK (American English "check").

Many thanks.

We went for day out in the Welsh countryside today and the conversation, as often happens, got a bit silly. "Oh look! Moo cows". "There are baa lambs over there", and what have you. I, being what I am started to think, why, when we have moo cows, baa lambs, bow wows and what have you, do we have "Ge...

Either of the first two would be perfectly satisfactory, as would be the third if it had read,
"That is too severe a sentence" (without 'of').

Amazing. I only knew it as someone who spreads "news".

Many thanks both.

I am reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Well, rephrasing that, I am attempting to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame, it is hard going in English, what it is like in French will remain a mystery. . In one interminable chapter Dom Claude is visited by Gossip Coictier and Gossip Tourangeau. Not even t...