Have you stopped acknowledging, i.e. saying "Thanks to ....", those who had sent you homophones?
Just asking, since we had sent you quite a few which we see appearing on your homophone page without any "Thanks to ........" accompanying them.
And just wondering why that would be.
Thanks Lynne,
........
P.S. And we won't mention any names here; just not to force any "Thanks to ........" on you, nor to squeeze any out of you.
Hi,
No, I haven't stopped acknowledging contributions, but they're all on my main computer, which is broken. So at the moment I'm winging it on my laptop. As soon as my computer is fixed I'll go through them.
Thanks for noticing. 🙂
Hello Teacher,
May I correct another of your mistakes, please?
Yes, I know we all make mistakes, but this is a rather big one I've noticed quite a lot of Brits themselves make.
Lynne, don't you realise it is simply a contraction of: "You are welcome." It is not my welcome, or your welcome, or anybody else's welcome for that matter. It is that if you thank me I respond: "You are welcome"
So if you thank me for this I will say in advance: "You're welcome, Lynne."
Thank you, Lynne.
No need for you to say sorry, that should be my response.
Hello,
Great website, Lynne. Keep up the good work. But.... There is always a "BUT"!
I've noticed you keep excusing yourself for not reacting to this or the other because of your broken main computer. I thought the forms were sent to your website, not to your computer. And I thought a website is online precisely so that one can access it from different computers, not only one. Just wondering...
And while wondering about that... I was also wondering... why you consider "wonder" and "wander" as homophones... ?? ... ?? ...
Since when, and where in the English speaking world, are these two words homophones??
I keep telling my students not to confuse them, and to distinguish between these two words; in which the first vowel is pronounced in English just the other way round as in some Latin based phonetic mother tongues!!: (o/ʌ/ and a/ɒ/)!!
And here you are listing them as homophones.
I've checked it in several dictionaries and even the American pronunciation of these two words is different. They are not homophones!! I wonder where from have you got the idea that they are. Or did your mind wander while at it?
And while I am wandering/'wɒn.dʳɪŋ/ around the town I do keep wondering /'wʌn.dʳɪŋ/ ... ..?.. ... ..?.. ... Why does Lynne consider wonder ['wʌndəʳ] and wander ['wɒndəʳ] as homophones??
With best wishes from
a wondering/'wʌn.dʳɪŋ/ .?. wanderer/'wɒn.dʳəʳ/ ...
OK - you win. Wander and wonder aren't homophones. Do you know my hubby and I have even argued about this.
As for my computer. Yes, some websites have wizzy databases that can store messages and contact form information. I'm afraid my site doesn't. Sigh.
I did try using this on the magazine, but within days it was so full of spam I gave up. That's why I stick to the forum and the blog.
Apologise for posting this letter in this forum. ===================== Dear Sir/Madam,
It is my understanding that your organisation holds copyrights in the following material:
I would like to use some of the materials in this Web for my grammar class for the research which I am currently undertaking at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. The purpose of my research is to examine the effectiveness of technology-enhanced teaching techniques in the EFL classroom. I am carrying out this research in my own right and have no association with any commercial organisation.
The specific materials that I would like to use for the purposes of the research includes Verbs (Tenses).
I would be most grateful for your consent to the copying and communication of these materials as proposed.
Full acknowledgement of the ownership of the copyright and the source of the material will be provided with the material. I would be willing to use a specific form of acknowledgement that you may require and to communicate any conditions relating to its use.
If you are not the copyright owner of the material in question, I would be grateful for any information you can provide as to who is likely to hold the copyright.
I look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your consideration of my request.
Hi I've found your site to be a great resource and added it as a link on mine, it would be much appreciated if you'd reciprocate the favor, thank you
~ Jason Miller
The problem is I have no idea what your site is.
Dear Teacher,
I can you justify the answer of this equation. 1 + 6 - 2 x 2 ÷ 2.5=4 One plus six minus two multiplied by two divided by two point five equals four This was use in the example from Learn English Basic- LEO network , English Numbers.
My students have different answers (common answer was 1.2) and they have different way of solving the mathematical problem.
Sorry, I should have added brackets, which I have done now. Basically I was just trying to show all the simple symbols, rather than trying to test anyone's mathematical abilities. Kudos to your students. 🙂
hoping you could teach me jack. quite curious about the engl ish matrix, and though i can see the 6,7,911-13 patterns, the rules as yet allude me. (that sum without even trying speak jack... blows my mind) help anyone? yeshfriends@yahoo.com
Would you like to do a pr5 home page link exchange with me or a pr4subpage link exchange
speakenglish.biz
Dave
sladeetal at hotmail.com
Oh thanks, but I don't do link exchanges.
There is an "add your link" feature for free on my web resources page. You're welcome to use that.
Hi Teacher,
I wonder what you mean by: "pronounced correctly" in your note to Homophone #135. "!Note - when pronounced correctly wheel isn't strictly a homophone"
Or should I ask WHICH pronunciation you consider as CORRECT.
Or maybe I should ask pronunciation FROM which part of the British isles is CORRECT for you. ?!?
Well, according to the phonetics in the "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary" weal /wiːl/ and wheel /wiːl/ are homophones. And there is no such note, as yours, as to the correct pronunciation of wheel; not even another pronunciation is suggested.
Hmmm - fair point, you see I aspirate all "wh" sounds - which, whale, wheel, because that's how I was taught (very strictly taught I might add) because I needed to differentiate between "My father comes from Wales," and "My father comes from whales"! But yes, in many parts of the world, like the wales, the "h" is disappearing. I'll try to make it clearer.
I found this quote on Answerbag, which amused me somewhat:-
"Very few people pronounce the H, in these question words. It is based on location & accent only. Mostly upper class people in the UK would pronounce like this." Dr Julius Edgar - University of New England, Language Faculty
So, maybe it's simply that I'm upper class. ROFL
By the way - DON'T SHOUT!
And so as to be consequent MAYBE you should add the same note to homophones: # 121, #107, #35, ... I quote: !Note - In some areas and dialects "wh" is still pronounced "hw".
... as well as to who (hwo ?) knows ??? how many other ones beginning with "wh" (where "wh" is still pronounced "hw".) that will turn up on your homophone page...
BTW, I have just found an interesting article in Wikipedia about the "Phonological history of wh"
In that case, why don't you add the same note: "!Note - In some areas and dialects "wh" is still pronounced "hw"." to Homophone #48 ?!?
And BTW I wasn't shouting; I was simply HIGHLIGHTING those words in this PARTICULAR way, since there is NO OTHER way to do so on "Your Teacher's Blog" web site.
Anyway, thanks for your upper-class explanation. 🙂 🙂 🙂
And may I ask? WHY don't you write Wales with a capital letter? I quote: "like the wales"? I thought it was a proper noun, wasn't it?
And another query. Do you know? Why the "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary" does not mention this "wh"-sounds aspiration at all?
Just curious!
AND trying to learn, as well as teach, English...
And BTW I am not shouting at all, at all; just >>> 🙂 🙂 🙂 and >>> HIGHLIGHTING...
Maybe the Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary doesn't wish to confuse the issue. They don't mention the word "blog" either.
It's meant to be "like the whales" but I decided to play a bit with the spelling.
Reference "who". Maybe one day we'll be saying "woo knows"?
Thanks for the link, I had already added it. Great minds think alike, or, Fools never differ.
hi my teacher I am fadoua, a Moroccan girl.Well, I study English at the university. The website is cool and wonderful. What I expect to find in it is some advanced English grammar, some semantic and public speaking courses. THANK YOU MY DEAR TEACHER FOR ALL!!
Please my teacher provide us with some tips of how to deal with poems, novels, or short stories.
Good day,
Greeting from across the pond. I'm a native English speaker and I stumbled upon your site while attempting to figure out if there was any rhyme or reason to when we use the prefix in- vs. im- (e.g. inability, inaudible, immune, immoral). Anyway I discovered that your list of prefixes is incomplete (there it is again). Perhaps this was intentionally left off the list as the prefix im- is seldom used. Just thought I would let you know. Cheerio!
Hello pond dweller, (just joking). Impossible that I left it off, extremely imprudent of me. I shall rectify it immediately.
I'm a student from china.Thank you very much. I hope I will set up a free web site like you for other things.
Hi Teacher,
What a shame you have changed the homophone page so that now each homophone appears with its number on its own separate page.
Don't you see Lynne that now we have to wait for each of these pages to load ... and then load back again ... and load again ...
What a load of loading ... ... ...
Your old system allowed us to simply scroll up and down the page and look at all the homophones in one place, i.e. on one page without having to wait for them to load ...
Is there any chance at all that you will go back to your old system? It would be greatly appreciated, Lynne.
Thank you.
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. The main problem was that with over 140 homophones the page was taking longer and longer to load, and people were having to scroll down further and further (I had a lot of complaints about that). I take your point though and I'll make it easier for people to find the latest one, I've also made it easier for people to leave a comment or a new homophone (I hope you like that feature). 🙂
The past continuous can also be used to show that an activity frequently took place over a period of time. Q) "What did you do on holiday?" A) "I went skiing a lot."
I believe text should be changed to: A) "I was skiing a lot."
No. If you were talking about a particular holiday, maybe, but believe it or not we go skiing. We often use the verb "to go" with certain sports or activities. We go walking, running, canoeing etc.
I went for a walk with the dogs this morning. 😉
it's good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource, thanx now i have the link which i was looking for my research.
I also had some problems with the page leaoding time, but I think this is a really nice site. Another nice blog for learning languages can be found here: http://learn-a-new-language-today.blogspot.com/
Hello Lynne,
Have you stopped acknowledging, i.e. saying "Thanks to ....", those who had sent you homophones?
Just asking, since we had sent you quite a few which we see appearing on your homophone page without any "Thanks to ........" accompanying them.
And just wondering why that would be.
Thanks Lynne,
........
P.S.
And we won't mention any names here; just not to force any "Thanks to ........" on you, nor to squeeze any out of you.
Hi,
No, I haven't stopped acknowledging contributions, but they're all on my main computer, which is broken. So at the moment I'm winging it on my laptop. As soon as my computer is fixed I'll go through them.
Thanks for noticing. 🙂
Hello Teacher,
May I correct another of your mistakes, please?
Yes, I know we all make mistakes, but this is a rather big one I've noticed quite a lot of Brits themselves make.
So sorry, but on your page http://www.learn-english-online.org/Lesson4/Course/Lesson4.htm#Phonetic way down at the bottom in the "Please and thank you" part, it's not "Your welcome" but "You're welcome" which is a common response to "Thank you".
Lynne, don't you realise it is simply a contraction of: "You are welcome." It is not my welcome, or your welcome, or anybody else's welcome for that matter. It is that if you thank me I respond: "You are welcome"
So if you thank me for this I will say in advance: "You're welcome, Lynne."
Thank you, Lynne.
No need for you to say sorry, that should be my response.
Hello,
Great website, Lynne. Keep up the good work. But.... There is always a "BUT"!
I've noticed you keep excusing yourself for not reacting to this or the other because of your broken main computer. I thought the forms were sent to your website, not to your computer. And I thought a website is online precisely so that one can access it from different computers, not only one. Just wondering...
And while wondering about that... I was also wondering... why you consider "wonder" and "wander" as homophones... ?? ... ?? ...
Since when, and where in the English speaking world, are these two words homophones??
I keep telling my students not to confuse them, and to distinguish between these two words; in which the first vowel is pronounced in English just the other way round as in some Latin based phonetic mother tongues!!:
(o/ʌ/ and a/ɒ/)!!
And here you are listing them as homophones.
I've checked it in several dictionaries and even the American pronunciation of these two words is different. They are not homophones!! I wonder where from have you got the idea that they are. Or did your mind wander while at it?
Cambdridge Dictionaries Online:
wonder /'wʌn.dəʳ/ US/-dɚ/
wander /'wɒn.dəʳ/ US/'wɒ:n.dɚ/
WordReference.com:
wonder ['wʌndəʳ]
wander ['wɒndəʳ]
Merriam-Webster:
wonder ˈwən-dər
wander ˈwän-dər
Wiktionary:
wonder (UK) IPA: /ˈwʌndə/
(US) IPA: /ˈwʌndɚ/
Rhymes: -ʌndə(r)
wander
Rhymes: -ɒndə(r)
And while I am wandering/'wɒn.dʳɪŋ/ around the town I do keep wondering /'wʌn.dʳɪŋ/ ... ..?.. ... ..?.. ... Why does Lynne consider wonder ['wʌndəʳ] and wander ['wɒndəʳ] as homophones??
With best wishes from
a wondering/'wʌn.dʳɪŋ/ .?. wanderer/'wɒn.dʳəʳ/ ...
OK - you win. Wander and wonder aren't homophones. Do you know my hubby and I have even argued about this.
As for my computer. Yes, some websites have wizzy databases that can store messages and contact form information. I'm afraid my site doesn't. Sigh.
I did try using this on the magazine, but within days it was so full of spam I gave up. That's why I stick to the forum and the blog.
Apologise for posting this letter in this forum.
=====================
Dear Sir/Madam,
It is my understanding that your organisation holds copyrights in the following material:
http://www.learnenglish.de/
I would like to use some of the materials in this Web for my grammar class for the research which I am currently undertaking at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. The purpose of my research is to examine the effectiveness of technology-enhanced teaching techniques in the EFL classroom. I am carrying out this research in my own right and have no association with any commercial organisation.
The specific materials that I would like to use for the purposes of the research includes Verbs (Tenses).
I would be most grateful for your consent to the copying and communication of these materials as proposed.
Full acknowledgement of the ownership of the copyright and the source of the material will be provided with the material. I would be willing to use a specific form of acknowledgement that you may require and to communicate any conditions relating to its use.
If you are not the copyright owner of the material in question, I would be grateful for any information you can provide as to who is likely to hold the copyright.
I look forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance for your consideration of my request.
Yours sincerely,
Alberth (Ph.D Candidate)
alberth@programmer.net
I've sent you an email.
Hi I've found your site to be a great resource and added it as a link on mine, it would be much appreciated if you'd reciprocate the favor, thank you
~ Jason Miller
The problem is I have no idea what your site is.
Dear Teacher,
I can you justify the answer of this equation.
1 + 6 - 2 x 2 ÷ 2.5=4
One plus six minus two multiplied by two divided by two point five equals four
This was use in the example from Learn English Basic- LEO network , English Numbers.
My students have different answers (common answer was 1.2) and they have different way of solving the mathematical problem.
Thank you.
My name is Uzma Hussain
My email is uzma.hussain@lums.edu.pk
Sorry, I should have added brackets, which I have done now. Basically I was just trying to show all the simple symbols, rather than trying to test anyone's mathematical abilities. Kudos to your students. 🙂
hoping you could teach me jack. quite curious about the engl ish matrix, and though i can see the 6,7,911-13 patterns, the rules as yet allude me.
(that sum without even trying speak jack... blows my mind)
help anyone?
yeshfriends@yahoo.com
Would you like to do a pr5 home page link exchange with me or a pr4subpage link exchange
speakenglish.biz
Dave
sladeetal at hotmail.com
Oh thanks, but I don't do link exchanges.
There is an "add your link" feature for free on my web resources page. You're welcome to use that.
Hi Teacher,
I wonder what you mean by: "pronounced correctly" in your note to Homophone #135.
"!Note - when pronounced correctly wheel isn't strictly a homophone"
Or should I ask WHICH pronunciation you consider as CORRECT.
Or maybe I should ask pronunciation FROM which part of the British isles is CORRECT for you. ?!?
Well, according to the phonetics in the "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary" weal /wiːl/ and wheel /wiːl/ are homophones. And there is no such note, as yours, as to the correct pronunciation of wheel; not even another pronunciation is suggested.
Hmmm - fair point, you see I aspirate all "wh" sounds - which, whale, wheel, because that's how I was taught (very strictly taught I might add) because I needed to differentiate between "My father comes from Wales," and "My father comes from whales"! But yes, in many parts of the world, like the wales, the "h" is disappearing. I'll try to make it clearer.
I found this quote on Answerbag, which amused me somewhat:-
"Very few people pronounce the H, in these question words. It is based on location & accent only. Mostly upper class people in the UK would pronounce like this."
Dr Julius Edgar - University of New England, Language Faculty
So, maybe it's simply that I'm upper class. ROFL
By the way - DON'T SHOUT!
And so as to be consequent MAYBE you should add the same note to homophones: # 121, #107, #35, ... I quote:
!Note - In some areas and dialects "wh" is still pronounced "hw".
... as well as to who (hwo ?) knows ??? how many other ones beginning with "wh" (where "wh" is still pronounced "hw".) that will turn up on your homophone page...
BTW, I have just found an interesting article in Wikipedia about the "Phonological history of wh"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_wh#Wine-whine_merger
Hi Teacher,
In that case, why don't you add the same note: "!Note - In some areas and dialects "wh" is still pronounced "hw"." to Homophone #48 ?!?
And BTW I wasn't shouting; I was simply HIGHLIGHTING those words in this PARTICULAR way, since there is NO OTHER way to do so on "Your Teacher's Blog" web site.
Anyway, thanks for your upper-class explanation. 🙂 🙂 🙂
And may I ask? WHY don't you write Wales with a capital letter? I quote: "like the wales"? I thought it was a proper noun, wasn't it?
And another query. Do you know? Why the "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary" does not mention this "wh"-sounds aspiration at all?
Just curious!
AND trying to learn, as well as teach, English...
And BTW I am not shouting at all, at all; just >>> 🙂 🙂 🙂 and >>> HIGHLIGHTING...
Maybe the Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary doesn't wish to confuse the issue. They don't mention the word "blog" either.
It's meant to be "like the whales" but I decided to play a bit with the spelling.
Reference "who". Maybe one day we'll be saying "woo knows"?
Thanks for the link, I had already added it. Great minds think alike, or, Fools never differ.
Oh and you have inspired me to add a page on Netiquette:-
http://www.learnenglish.de/ImproveEnglish/netiquette.htm
hi my teacher I am fadoua, a Moroccan girl.Well, I study English at the university. The website is cool and wonderful. What I expect to find in it is some advanced English grammar, some semantic and public speaking courses.
THANK YOU MY DEAR TEACHER FOR ALL!!
Please my teacher provide us with some tips of how to deal with poems, novels, or short stories.
Good day,
Greeting from across the pond. I'm a native English speaker and I stumbled upon your site while attempting to figure out if there was any rhyme or reason to when we use the prefix in- vs. im- (e.g. inability, inaudible, immune, immoral). Anyway I discovered that your list of prefixes is incomplete (there it is again). Perhaps this was intentionally left off the list as the prefix im- is seldom used. Just thought I would let you know. Cheerio!
Hello pond dweller, (just joking). Impossible that I left it off, extremely imprudent of me. I shall rectify it immediately.
I'm a student from china.Thank you very much.
I hope I will set up a free web site like you for other things.
Hi Teacher,
What a shame you have changed the homophone page so that now each homophone appears with its number on its own separate page.
Don't you see Lynne that now we have to wait for each of these pages to load ... and then load back again ... and load again ...
What a load of loading ... ... ...
Your old system allowed us to simply scroll up and down the page and look at all the homophones in one place, i.e. on one page without having to wait for them to load ...
Is there any chance at all that you will go back to your old system? It would be greatly appreciated, Lynne.
Thank you.
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. The main problem was that with over 140 homophones the page was taking longer and longer to load, and people were having to scroll down further and further (I had a lot of complaints about that). I take your point though and I'll make it easier for people to find the latest one, I've also made it easier for people to leave a comment or a new homophone (I hope you like that feature). 🙂
On the page below I believe there is a mistake:
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensepastcont.htm
TEXT FROM THE PAGE:
The past continuous can also be used to show that an activity frequently took place over a period of time.
Q) "What did you do on holiday?" A) "I went skiing a lot."
I believe text should be changed to: A) "I was skiing a lot."
No. If you were talking about a particular holiday, maybe, but believe it or not we go skiing. We often use the verb "to go" with certain sports or activities. We go walking, running, canoeing etc.
I went for a walk with the dogs this morning. 😉
it's good to see this information in your post, i was looking the same but there was not any proper resource, thanx now i have the link which i was looking for my research.
Masters Essay Writing
I also had some problems with the page leaoding time, but I think this is a really nice site. Another nice blog for learning languages can be found here: http://learn-a-new-language-today.blogspot.com/
LOL you spelled parallel wrong.
http://www.learnenglish.de/spelling/CommonSpellingMistakes.htm
Oops! Thanks for pointing it out.
Dear Lynne,
unfortunately I do not find any contact information from you, so I hope you dont mind if I am using the comment field.
Please check http://www.adconversion.de/english/index. We see significant AdSense potential on your websites.
All the best from Hamburg
Hannes
Sorry, I don't really have enough time to worry about such things. Thanks anyway.