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All right, I suppose it's not so odd. But it's cute, at least.

What's odd is that the N is pronounced in "autumnal", "damnation", "solemnize", "hymnal", "columnist", but never pronounced in "damning", "hymned", "columned".

Are you blown away by the English competence of people from the Balkans? Or the Portuguese? Moreover, what proves the causation isn't the other way around? Actually, when I traveled in the Balkans I was pretty surprised by the amount of English people spoke, particularly when comparing those countr...

The curse of my surname. No one gets it right... "Mr. Broo, Brow, Broa..." "Bruff!" I don't mind if in Spain they call me /braf/ or /broug/, or the French, /brug/. It's confusing enough for the English. :P When I was teaching English, I remember correcting someone for pronouncing "Fulghum", as in R...

The packaging is as odd as the usage. Since when are alcoholic beverages sold in plastic bags? If they want to tell me it's not just a mix, I don't have to put my own liquor in it, they shouldn't use language. They should put it in a bottle. That said, I agree that topicalizing "alcohol" is what mak...