The second part of the rule "…or when sounding like A/As in neighbor and weigh."

The original post dismisses pronunciation guides because it's not as easy to work into a data-driven exercise.

This is why I come to the internet - to read some fool giving an opinion on something when they are wrong.

Upvoted for the reference to "In a Lonely Place," a movie which changes tones easily. Comedy, thriller, drama - it can be whatever you want it to be.

What is the motivation behind this sentence? Girardi is giving credit to Weigel for pointing out Fripp's rotten personality. I would totally restructure this passage and set up the theme of the rest of this article.

Does "Animal House" have our leading man moping around and pining for the nice girl for half-an-hour? Does "Animal House" fly in a surprise cameo from a leading go-to clown in a (largely unsuccessful) attempt to bring the movie back to life? No and no. Much as I enjoy the first half of "Wedding Crashers," the last…

"Ashes to Ashes" came out in 1980, not too long before "Major Tom." I remember being a bit confused about who was who, not having much exposure to Bowie at that time.

It's because they've internalized their own loser-ness. They feel they are the blame for their own lousy situation. And so they look for anybody or anything to follow. It's the same reflex in domestic abuse victims who don't leave their abusers. But it's a cultural thing.

Contrary to the words of the well-meaning people in the media, you write as if you do understand Trump voters. I once lived among them, and what you write matches my experience precisely.

Love "Video."

They played a free concert here in Albany a couple of years ago. I didn't go, because of crowds and shit. But it was a disaster - everybody bitched about them.

I've been slowly rolling my YouTube channel out, posting videos with tags just to see if they organically get noticed - my Leonardo DiCaprio video has 1,300+ hits with zero publicity, not even a Facebook post to my friends. My intention is to write a blog about home video, simple do's and do not's with samples of…

We stopped inside Rotterdam Centraal last summer. You're right - it was stunning. I was impressed enough with Liege a few years back, but Rotterdam really raised design up a step. The outside is striking from the photos I've seen.

Sorry, my narration will be using a reasonable inside voice like what Dutch people would use inside a train. Well, maybe I could Shat it up a bit. (Back when I managed a winery I used to tell the tour guides to speak to customers like Bob Barker would.)

The Thalys runs the same lines as the Dutch national railway. Everything south of The Hague would be on the Thalys, north of that would be a mixture.

I mentioned up above that I'm working on my own train video. Might as well fess up now that it's about the ride from Amsterdam to Paris. It's going to take some time, but it'll get there. Love that ride.

That's a great story from Ebert - thanks.

My choice, if only because I want him impersonated by a woman: https://youtu.be/PGrhNx1XOd…

You're right about the book.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've let some halfway-amusing book about flop movies enter my subconscious, poisoning my reflexes in regards to movies such as "Annie." Ashamed because the damn book was written by Michael Medved, whose failure as a Hollywood scold lead him to take on a career as a steward for the right-wing.…