Comments for LearningNerd http://learningnerd.wordpress.com One nerd\'s attempt to teach herself everything -- for free. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Improve Your Vocabulary by Jan http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/improve-your-vocabulary/#comment-26256 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:42:54 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/improve-your-vocabulary/#comment-26256 Great summary on how to Improve your English! Thank you for mentioning my podcast (JustVocabulary – 2 words a day podcast).

I just want to add that we are building an online quiz now as well. We have now introduced over 800 words in audio format, listeners and visitors can now practice these words as well!

]]> Comment on English Etymology Resources by Edward Altizer http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/english-etymology/#comment-8066 Wed, 30 May 2007 17:54:36 +0000 https://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/27/english-etymology/#comment-8066 One word I find interesting is ‘cheapsgate’, spelled just that way, which I learned growing up in the US, but which seems to be unknown among people in the words business. I search high and low, and google it to find it used mostly by British sources. As I learned it it’s from Cheaps’ Gate, as a city gate where the ‘cheaps’ were, or merchants in old England.

It turns into cheapskate, because apparently the voiceless p and s influence the g into voiceless k. Now I find all kinds of references telling me ‘origin unknown’, or trying to guess what ‘skate’ is. A horse? a fish? It seems they could do better.

I can guess why the change to k happened, but if you start with the error, it’s hard to deprogram back to the original.

]]> Comment on English Grammar: Types of Sentences by ahmed http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/english-grammar-types-of-sentences/#comment-5033 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:50:58 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/english-grammar-types-of-sentences/#comment-5033 could you please indentify the type of these following sentences:
+Sometimes it happened,sometimes it didn’t

]]> Comment on English Grammar: Types of Sentences by ahmed http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/english-grammar-types-of-sentences/#comment-5032 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:48:16 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/12/english-grammar-types-of-sentences/#comment-5032 is there any site in which excercise of types of sentences are being corrected?

]]> Comment on New Topic and New Posting Schedule by RaymonWazerri http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/new-topic-and-new-posting-schedule/#comment-4538 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:05:58 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/new-topic-and-new-posting-schedule/#comment-4538 Hey,
I love what you’e doing!
Don’t ever change and best of luck.

Raymon W.

]]> Comment on English Grammar: Types of Clauses by Rowhia http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/english-grammar-types-of-clauses/#comment-4463 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:11:25 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/english-grammar-types-of-clauses/#comment-4463 i need some exercises about (Cleft Sentences) ,please.

]]> Comment on New Topic and New Posting Schedule by WitheHorse http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/new-topic-and-new-posting-schedule/#comment-4428 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:39:30 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/new-topic-and-new-posting-schedule/#comment-4428 Hi all!
I like this forum!!

]]> Comment on English Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks by Pat http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/english-punctuation-periods-question-marks-and-exclamation-marks/#comment-4105 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:47:31 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/english-punctuation-periods-question-marks-and-exclamation-marks/#comment-4105 im having a real hard time finding this out…can the answer be emailed to me?
please

]]> Comment on English Punctuation: Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Marks by Pat http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/english-punctuation-periods-question-marks-and-exclamation-marks/#comment-4104 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:44:48 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/english-punctuation-periods-question-marks-and-exclamation-marks/#comment-4104 please i know there is a term for …
three periods in a row?

]]> Comment on Improve Your Vocabulary by blog do valdecir carvalho » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-11 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/improve-your-vocabulary/#comment-4103 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:33:01 +0000 http://learningnerd.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/improve-your-vocabulary/#comment-4103 [...] Improve Your Vocabulary « LearningNerd [...]

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