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To British people: do you actually say 'trainers' all the time, or is 'sneakers' used too?
I'm so used to saying 'sneakers' that I totally forgot 'trainers' was even a word when I finally saw it once.
12.00am means midnight?
I've seen this several times and it's starting to piss me off. I'm from Spain and we don't generally use am/pm, but when we do, we refer to midnight as 00.00 and midday as 12.00, and both count as "am". The "pm" starts at 13.00, when we start counting from 1 again (1pm). I just saw a train ticket that said 12.01am - 2.15am and was confused for a second. 12am to me is midday!! Because pm begins at 13!! Does this happen in every English-speaking country?
Can someone tell me what's the name of this object in english?
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Should I actually not put subtitles when I watch something?
I’ve seen so many english teacher online says about subtitles being not helpful when it comes to learning english in general. but for me I still find it difficult to understand everything what they say without subs. so I was wondering if i should stick with watching movies or youtube without subs even tho I don’t know whats happening in it or you think subs still have benefits in terms of listening comprehension
Being a non-native speaker, I can confirm this
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Is "date" always meant to be romantic
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1ijd53k/is_date_always_meant_to_be_romantic/
What does it mean to “raw dog”?
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Is it true that the word "too" is used to express an excess of something negative?
I came accross a YT video where the presenter said that the word "too" is used to express an excess of something negative, and the use of the word before "good" is wrong, for example - "This place is *too* crowded". We use the sentence - "Too good to be true" very commonly, but then it implies something negative, so this very likely might be true. I am not a native speaker.
This feels like an odd sentence structure to me, is it correct?
I'd think it should be 'But the more time went by, the less response he became', or 'But as more time went by, he became less responsive'. Something like that.
Is potluck a word frequently used in the US? If not, what's the regular way of saying it?
The title:) What is the kind of party where guests bring their food in with them? Thanks everyone!