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<<Men, all this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. >>
Be as that may, we were Johnny-come-latelies in WW2. The war had already been in full force for over three years. It wasn't until the events at Pearl Harbor that we went to war.
Before this, there was a vast Republican resistance to our entering the war. "It's not our War" was the battlecry; Roosevelt was publicly called "Rosenburg" because certain rightwingers thought the Jewish people were behind the pro-War effort.
We were late in entering WW1, too; and later, still, in entering the Vietnam War
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Furthermore, even during World War I and World War II the popular view in America was not to get involved... Americans are traditionally non-interventionist or isolationists, although our foreign policy since Korea would suggest otherwise...
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Yes, the tradition of non-intervention and isolation is dead. Now it is preemptive strike and world domination.
If you're going to delete, please delete from here: Jasper Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:55 pm GMT
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"He is a gay" makes sense and is more forceful and rude than "he is gay".
Gay is a standard countable noun and does not take a capital letter.
"What about those two gays over by the bar?" makes sense.
"A engineer" is INCORRECT. "An engineer" is correct English. "An" is used before all nouns that have a vowel sound at the beginning.
There you go!
Sorted! :-)
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In politically-correct Britain, they aren't "gay", they are are "same-gender attracted."
And people aren't "disabled." They are "differently-abled."
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<<In politically-correct Britain, they aren't "gay", they are are "same-gender attracted."
And people aren't "disabled." They are "differently-abled.">>
Why do Britons double copulas? "they are are" just makes no sense.
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< "An" is used before all nouns that have a vowel sound at the beginning. >
Is it a or an hotel?
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<<Is it a or an hotel?>>
Both occur, but "a hotel" is much more common these days. Likewise, "an historic" did once occur, but I think it is mostly relegated to written English now.
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<Likewise, "an historic" did once occur, but I think it is mostly relegated to written English now.>
Not even there is it common. But what happened in the 40s?
WORD- AN HISTORIC
1920s 1
1930s 12
1940s 38
1950s 1
1960s 1
1970s 4
1980s 11
1990s 4
2000s 1
TOT 81
Time magazine.
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<Both occur, but "a hotel" is much more common these days.>
When was "a hotel" common?
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