2020-10-15 BWH group 4

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from each class
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a stroll = a relaxing walk with no particular destination
to stroll = to walk in a relaxed way with no particular destination (or at least in no hurry)
(We call it a “stroller” but British English is “pram”, for “perambulator”, which means the same thing.)

recollection = memory (As with “recall”, “recollect” sometimes implies a more active process than “remember”.)

overarching = broad and general and (figuratively) covering everything
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Unwritten/Unspoken Rules (e.g. in your lab)?
- chain of command

faux pas = “false step” or “misstep” = doing something impolite or otherwise awkward in a social situation (often because you didn’t know the rules)

hazing = playing an unpleasant trick on a new person which is often seen as a rite of initiation or passage
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Use “a” or “an” based entirely on the sound of the following word (including initialisms and abbreviations):

- an FDA-approved treatment, an mp3 player, an hour, an honest person, an NEJM article (if I read this I would conclude that people pronounce the letters separately)
- a university, a USB cable, a one-way street, a hotel, a NEJM article (here I would conclude that the person reads it as one word)

(In formal English, people often use “an” before forms of the word “history”, even if that person would pronounce the ‘h’.)

In British English, it would probably be “a herb”, and in American English, “an herb”.

A Spanish speaker might say (or write) “an state”, because they pronounce it like “estate”.
A French speaker might say “an hotel”, because they don’t pronounce the ‘h’.
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The spelling doesn’t change, but the pronunciation of “the” often also changes based on the following sound.
- the apple (“thee apple” or “thyapple”), the onion
- the book (“the book”)
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If you’re emphasizing “the”, it’s common to pronounce it as “thee”, the same way we might pronounce “a” as “ay”

The /ə/ (schwa) sound that articles normally have is the typical sound for unstressed syllables, so it can feel strange to stress it.
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I		we
thou		ye
he/she/it	they

me		us
thee		you
him/her/it	them

my		our
thy		your
his/her/its	their

mine		ours
thine		yours
his/hers/its	theirs
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Now “you” is probably singular by default, because other words people use are usually the plural:
y’all
youse
you guys
yinz
you’uns

https://imgur.com/gallery/mD8TF/ - US maps of where different words and phrases are more common
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https://qz.com/1169792/theres-a-reason-using-a-period-in-a-text-message-makes-you-sound-angry/ - Article about social conventions in text messaging.