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Announcement: Thank you and goodbye 0 Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:25 pm
Announcement: Ask Antimoon 0 Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:24 pm
unless + do not 13 Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:45 pm
learn 6 Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:18 am
Canadian pronunciation of Javascript 4 Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:45 am
My accent. 6 Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:36 am
full 4 Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:22 pm
A dialect? 6 Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:22 am
why 2 Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:11 am
done 2 Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:38 am
Do Modern English speakers understand this? 8 Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:24 pm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th Edition 3 Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:09 pm
have had 6 Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:05 pm
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:04 pm
Shuimo's fans and woes, attention,plz! (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:52 pm
To native English speakers: "RA" (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:47 pm
Nixon (1905) Yeats poem - The Second Coming 8 Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:40 am
na? 2 Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:21 am
EnglishTutorials.net - Learn English Online via Skype 0 Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:47 am
Google: mary phagan leo frank 6 Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:20 am
AAE and Southern American English 5 Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:14 am
found 6 Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:07 am
a long ways 10 Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:55 am
"curly" and "early". 4 Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:15 am
The nouning of "fail". 5 Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:04 pm
The past tense of "lie"? 5 Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:39 pm
I've not vs I haven't (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:33 am
Chiding but serious 2 Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:32 pm
Fly undone 2 Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:17 pm
Review of Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary 7 Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:22 am
stone or seed? That is the question. 11 Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:16 am
"one hundred" and "a hundred" 100 1 Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:46 am
Orphaned, at what age? 1 Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:37 pm
Mr. Vice President 14 Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:07 pm
to hypenate or not or both 2 Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:36 pm
So I read Comma Gets a Cure (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:36 pm
the book that ate America's brain" (pages: 1 2 3 ) 34 Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:13 pm
What does 'tote' mean? 2 Wed Jun 24, 2009 7:05 pm
A question about "y" in a word. 9 Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:17 am
Are 'fail' and 'let down' equal? 3 Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:49 pm
When will English do "great spelling shift"? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:55 pm
Yet another "How bad is my accent" post 5 Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:10 pm
Hardcover VS Paperback 4 Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:12 am
How do you see "look at" in the sentence below? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:27 am
Don't need to go to a foreign country to learn a language. (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:05 pm
How can improve English Listening Ability 7 Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:38 pm
Improvement 1 Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:43 pm
Said Obama or Obama said? 4 Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:34 pm
'quirk / quirky' GAE version (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:09 am
English becoming more phonetic? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:26 pm
How to Improve Your Fluency 14 Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:53 pm
"tighty-whities" 12 Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:26 pm
verb and particle switching roles (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 54 Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:15 pm
post as a preposition 9 Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:10 pm
pronunciation of 'perfect' 9 Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:42 am
Unusual structure 7 Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:54 pm
Uriel help plz 6 Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:55 pm
Immediate recognition 0 Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:49 am
Auckland / Oakland 3 Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:11 am
Gordon Ramsay (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:42 pm
The soup is sharp? 10 Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:50 am
Does anyone find English songs are difficult to understand? 6 Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:50 am
can you understand? 1 Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:57 pm
You must specify a subject --ok ok there 3 Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:35 pm
Is a Native Speaker? 10 Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:03 pm
Hasitation to speak English! Please share your experience 3 Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:34 pm
Is slang poor English? (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:32 am
Jedi 3 Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:21 pm
look after 5 Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:30 pm
My accent 4 Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:23 pm
To study pronunciation 1 Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:42 pm
Gaynor Howles accent 2 Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:57 am
Philistines! 10 Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:30 pm
a water? a passion? 12 Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:19 pm
"backwards slowly" or "slowly backwards" 9 Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:14 am
Kazakhstanis against Borat 0 Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:35 am
opcaity and phrasal verbs 2 Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:47 pm
can or could 2 Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:00 pm
One millionth English word could be 'defriend' or 'noob' 11 Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:00 pm
Puns 1 Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:36 am
off of/off/offa (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:19 pm
redundant particles 9 Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:09 am
Tip of the tongue for "L" 3 Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:37 am
Oregon vs. California vs. Arizona 6 Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:56 am
Is there any underlying rule for usage of I/me/myself? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 34 Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:35 am
BrE or AmE in your country?? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 8 9 10 11 12 ) 172 Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:32 pm
Fight and Fart: Homophones? 7 Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:38 pm
has the hots 8 Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:28 pm
Do you want to teach oral English in China 1 Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:12 pm
Is this correct? 8 Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:56 pm
debate, please help me now 7 Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:54 pm
short time yes see 1 Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:29 pm
Accent, again 7 Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:28 am
off/of pronunciation 3 Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:03 am
5 US States (pages: 1 2 3 ) 44 Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:39 am
T.S. Eliot's accent (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:12 am
Good threads to restart the Antimoon experience 1 Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:26 am
My accent - please rate and comment 8 Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:09 pm
Ditto 1 Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:06 pm
top 2 Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:03 pm
Turn right at the green boots 3 Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:31 am
Why isn't important to study output 7 Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:54 pm
Rhotic vs. Non-Rhotic (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 57 Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:19 am
Does English have a lot of exceptions 5 Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:01 am
Elicit (pages: 1 2 3 ) 35 Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:53 am
do you drop "t" in these words? 7 Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:52 am
Oral English teacher are needed in China 3 Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:52 pm
How do Americans pronounce "car raceer"? 14 Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:42 pm
2010 (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:43 pm
J.C. Wells' Accents of English series 1 Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:14 pm
non-native expression adopted by natives? 13 Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:33 pm
Live audio discussion 0 Sun May 31, 2009 11:56 pm
Survival English 8 Sat May 30, 2009 5:59 pm
Do you use plural verbs for uncountable nouns? 2 Sat May 30, 2009 5:31 pm
Days 1 Sat May 30, 2009 4:43 pm
Poker face 9 Sat May 30, 2009 4:58 am
FAO Damian 2 Thu May 28, 2009 4:07 pm
Celeb status 1 Thu May 28, 2009 12:39 am
Robert Cornysh translation 2 Wed May 27, 2009 8:36 pm
"Son" used for boy and girl? 12 Wed May 27, 2009 2:42 pm
highly ambiguous words 1 Wed May 27, 2009 12:16 pm
around inside of 0 Wed May 27, 2009 10:20 am
a confession 0 Tue May 26, 2009 4:22 am
THE BOOK on determining the ideal dictionary 5 Mon May 25, 2009 4:00 pm
Chest 5 Mon May 25, 2009 3:25 am
Brevity is the Soul of Wit 4 Sun May 24, 2009 2:53 pm
'th' in special cases 2 Sat May 23, 2009 2:33 pm
good day 3 Fri May 22, 2009 6:32 am
reckless driving 2 Thu May 21, 2009 10:38 pm
split make up 6 Thu May 21, 2009 3:27 pm
Two objects? 6 Wed May 20, 2009 11:14 pm
passive woes 5 Wed May 20, 2009 11:09 pm
Don't say "yeah", say "yes". 14 Wed May 20, 2009 8:47 pm
It is estimated 3 Wed May 20, 2009 6:50 pm
"Begging to"? 5 Wed May 20, 2009 4:56 pm
bearing 1 Wed May 20, 2009 4:21 am
play at 1 Tue May 19, 2009 1:54 pm
knowingly 13 Tue May 19, 2009 2:59 am
Opinions of speaker usage (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Mon May 18, 2009 10:08 pm
Right word? 5 Sun May 17, 2009 8:09 pm
2 Qs 1 Sun May 17, 2009 6:32 pm
absolutely 6 Sun May 17, 2009 6:03 pm
Collins Cobuild 5th Edition is now out of stock in Korea 4 Sun May 17, 2009 1:43 am
absolutely 0 Sat May 16, 2009 9:44 pm
Cross-traffic 2 Sat May 16, 2009 4:45 pm
Does Welsh sound like Indian to you? 11 Sat May 16, 2009 4:37 pm
Aussies and Southerners most ashamed of their accents 2 Sat May 16, 2009 8:21 am
"Most biggest" (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Sat May 16, 2009 2:49 am
"What kind of pictures he take?" - omitting 'did' 11 Fri May 15, 2009 11:18 am
never ever 6 Fri May 15, 2009 8:39 am
Will 'shan't' ever return? And why did it go? 2 Fri May 15, 2009 8:06 am
finger you? 7 Thu May 14, 2009 5:20 pm
Neither or nor? 5 Thu May 14, 2009 5:06 pm
tails 2 Thu May 14, 2009 2:52 pm
meaning of...please 2 Thu May 14, 2009 12:44 pm
Q 2 Thu May 14, 2009 1:35 am
a problematic phrase 5 Thu May 14, 2009 1:25 am
have but one 1 Thu May 14, 2009 1:13 am
Take my admiration 1 Thu May 14, 2009 1:04 am
Accent belge et accent québécois 3 Wed May 13, 2009 9:09 pm
Suggest Vs. Recommend 2 Wed May 13, 2009 3:21 pm
Bunk in? 8 Tue May 12, 2009 10:03 pm
Is this conditional 4 Tue May 12, 2009 9:03 pm
Use of 'wished' in the present 3 Tue May 12, 2009 8:59 pm
Question 3 Tue May 12, 2009 8:49 pm
Health of equipment? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Tue May 12, 2009 8:39 pm
Using "come" as present-tence 8 Tue May 12, 2009 7:36 pm
How do native speakers decide if it's countable or not? (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue May 12, 2009 4:30 am
English words, Polish pronunciation 11 Tue May 12, 2009 3:01 am
Oral English teacher are needed in China 0 Mon May 11, 2009 6:01 am
HOT SELL DESIGNER FASHION BAGS 0 Mon May 11, 2009 1:15 am
Is it wrong to capitalise on your body? 1 Sun May 10, 2009 10:56 pm
Run the light 2 Sun May 10, 2009 10:38 pm
ENGLAND and St George (pages: 1 2 3 ) 34 Sun May 10, 2009 10:35 pm
The Famine Song 3 Sun May 10, 2009 2:22 pm
How do you assess 2 Sun May 10, 2009 7:35 am
When reading English have a dictionary handy (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sun May 10, 2009 4:01 am
Confusion between Chinese and Japanese (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Sat May 09, 2009 10:29 pm
Name origin? 8 Sat May 09, 2009 9:15 pm
Is english the best language for poems. (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 57 Sat May 09, 2009 3:32 am
Linguistic innovators (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Fri May 08, 2009 11:15 am
Get myself confused by English grammar (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Fri May 08, 2009 8:25 am
Help with ifs 8 Thu May 07, 2009 2:32 pm
Reading poetry 10 Thu May 07, 2009 3:12 am
English Novels set in 17th and early 18th centuries. (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Wed May 06, 2009 2:25 am
Poet Laureate 9 Tue May 05, 2009 10:00 am
Were Celtic people closer to Germans or Latins? (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Mon May 04, 2009 9:11 pm
phrase 2 Mon May 04, 2009 3:03 pm
the Indian accent 5 Mon May 04, 2009 4:29 am
UN accent (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sun May 03, 2009 4:25 pm
Soldiers 10 Sun May 03, 2009 10:46 am
grammatical differance using signifacant and significative 3 Sun May 03, 2009 2:52 am
race cars 3 Sat May 02, 2009 7:27 am
There is never a monitor when you need one 7 Fri May 01, 2009 1:51 am
Will English as a global language ever be threatened? 10 Fri May 01, 2009 1:18 am
Why learn English? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 54 Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:43 pm
What should a reading heritage be for pupils in 2015? (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:00 am
"cabinet" 7 Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:19 am
The bugging sentence in Blade Runner 6 Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:19 am
I am proving a point 1 Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:16 am
American sounds less native English than English or Aussie (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:58 am
Use of /aː/ as opposed to /æ/ in Australia 7 Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:56 am
Inform - advise 1 Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:56 am
The difference of pronouncing Beach and Bitch??? 7 Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:00 pm
I should have went 11 Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:06 pm
SuperMemo UX - plugins 0 Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:14 am
English is more that grammar and vocabulary! 11 Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:10 am
toefl score 3 Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:05 am
"heard" as the past tense of "hear". 2 Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:30 pm
pay him back in beer or pay him back with beer 1 Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:28 pm
A good way to learn 10 Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:23 am
Pronunciation - English as a Melting Pot of many languages 0 Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:32 pm
American English: Your time is up! 11 Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:02 pm
"funner" 5 Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:47 pm
spelling reform (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 48 Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:44 am
British English (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:48 pm
Help with this accent 3 Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:24 pm
Ouf of office 1 Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:39 pm
I'm hiding from the cops. 1 Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:18 pm
"What" instead of "which" 1 Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:41 pm
Bubrary - Supermemo 0 Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:47 am
racist code words (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:21 pm
American Accent lesson 5 Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:16 pm
Grammar 1 Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:00 am
Is Scots English? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:24 am
Vlog on Aussie accents 3 Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:53 am
Record this well known bible passage in your native accent 3 Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:10 am
the N word (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:37 pm
Lay 9 Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:35 pm
at the train station 0 Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:28 pm
question 2 Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:56 pm
Commercial sex 8 Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:27 pm
Audio Clip - Comments 9 Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:54 pm
what you really want to be 8 Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:12 pm
Please comment on my accent 10 Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:52 am
Hair 5 Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:26 am
Do native speakers say 'close to here' or 'close here'? 4 Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:09 am
for what it's worth 2 Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:57 am
Antimoon vs Krashen 7 Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:24 pm
"faggot" 8 Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:56 pm
Name for a Tennis Shot 4 Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:35 am
Gerund's question 7 Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:51 am
You're vs Your 10 Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:13 am
Inconsistent with my 't/d' swapping 9 Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:39 am
Is rhotic or non-rhotic more common? (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:43 am
'pronunciation' pronunciation (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:02 am
reign supreme 2 Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:09 pm
T's to d's 4 Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:15 pm
Possessives - do u agree? 6 Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:13 pm
Software 2 Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:14 pm
Is there a linguistic way to measure how different two diale 4 Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:11 pm
Sheriff 8 Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:22 am
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