All my best friends are not. I am not being nice as I thought. I have friends who are more mature.

In an example I can’t think of a context in which I would understand repeat as a noun meaning the act of repeating. I am familiar with the noun repeated meaning an instance of something which has previously occurred (nearly always in the context of television programmes).

What does heterological sound like?

It doesn’t get used much, because it was invented primarily to express a form of Russell’s paradox.

This is a word that has been evolved in one variety of English (Indian) but is still spread across other dialects of English. What is said to be said to you?

I expected that I would go into the… It’s not particularly an idiom in this sense.

The second (without to) is more common. But both are grammatical.

GloWBe (The Corpus of Global Web-based English) has 210 instances without ‘to’ and 52 with ‘to’.

In German Iddish grammatically, Yiddish is almost entirely Germanic – very close to an older form of High German. In spoken English, it is mostly Germanic, but a large admixture of Hebrew and notes from other languages such as Russian and Polish. It has a common vocabulary, too, or more eloquent combinations, which helps on some levels.

As such, it is not what most scholars refer to as creole: that is a language whose grammar has arisen spontaneously, generally when a cohort of children grow up among people who communicate in pidgin (a contact language with little or no consistent grammar). What are some examples of a first language that children will try to work on that they know but have little resemblance to the language where they come from? (This is somewhat controversial, as is the claim that creoles around the world tends to have rather similar grammars).

Even if Yiddish is a native Germanic language, it is similar to German, but it also has a lot of Hebrew and other words I can use. What does Yiddish

mean?

In German Iddish grammatically, Yiddish is almost entirely Germanic – very close to an older form of High German. In spoken English, it is mostly Germanic, but a large admixture of Hebrew and notes from other languages such as Russian and Polish. It has a common vocabulary, too, or more eloquent combinations, which helps on some levels.

As such, it is not what most scholars refer to as creole: that is a language whose grammar has arisen spontaneously, generally when a cohort of children grow up among people who communicate in pidgin (a contact language with little or no consistent grammar). What are some examples of a first language that children will try to work on that they know but have little resemblance to the language where they come from? (This is somewhat controversial, as is the claim that creoles around the world tends to have rather similar grammars).

Even if Yiddish is a native Germanic language, it is similar to German, but it also has a lot of Hebrew and other words I can use. What does Yiddish

mean?

What would be the meaning of time periods around now (to be found in a utmost literal sense)? “Now” is in this hour, this day, this week, this year, this century, this millennium… It

is not idiomatic to use “in” with periods of time.

You can use points of time, to set a limit (“in two years = in some contexts “within the period of two years starting now”).

The year/month can be used with “in” for the month or month. Here are the examples. If you use a day, you use “on” (“on

Wednesday”).

One of the meanings of abstract given in the OED is stated by the date

1. “December 17, 1916; Withdrawn from the contemplation on present objects; // abstracted adj. 2. Arch.

Do you understand “nodded abstinently” – “nodded as though with the mind on other things”.

Athletes can not act like Bruce Willis, but not more. There’s nothing wrong with his acting, but don’t say that it means that “one must not be Bruce Willis”.

I don’t know enough about his films to know whether this is a reference to a particular character in a particular film, or whether it is suggesting that his characters in general tend to use an unreasonable level of violence.