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Cleave - split or sever Cleave - adhere strongly

Dust - remove dust (dusted the table) Dust - add a powered (dusted the cake with icing sugar)

Ahh, I see it now. I got stuck with dust "the noun" vs dust "the verb". I stand corrected and informed.

LittleJoe

Hey Kiwi, is that use of "Y'all" affected for this American audience or does it really mean you are form the South Island? I made a joke about that a while back but I never saw the response if you made one.

You're right on the mark there, It's an affected Americanism :D

One of the big problems for learners of English, is that with so many disparate elements combining to form the language there is no single unified rule of grammar as found in Latin for example. Mouse and House becoming Mice and Houses for example, and Sheep becoming Sheep. Old Norse (the Danes) Norman French and Olde German (the Saxons) all treated things differently, and all added their trace to the blend that we call modern English.

One of the big problems for learners of English, is that with so many disparate elements combining to form the language there is no single unified rule of grammar as found in Latin for example. Mouse and House becoming Mice and Houses for example, and Sheep becoming Sheep. Old Norse (the Danes) Norman French and Olde German (the Saxons) all treated things differently, and all added their trace to the blend that we call modern English.

I know . . . isn't it cool? I love my native tongue . . . of course, us Californians don't have an accent ;) - we speak about a neutral an English as anyone . . . some idiosyncrasies like "warsh" for wash (where does that R come from?) . . . I picked up a Kiwi hitching in Truckee one time. He was going to the old summit to do some rock climbing. He was talking away and I finally said to him, "I know you are speaking English, but I have NO idea what you just said." He laughed at that and tried to speak more slowly. It was quite the conversation.

Jopa