121-180
- 121 Topics: Convenience stores, eating and drinking noises, colleague versus associate versus fellow, to sign in versus to sign off versus to sign on versus to sign up
- 122 Topics: Ask an American: Endangered languages;rednecks, dictionary versus thesaurus
- 123 Topics: Charles Schultz and Peanuts, how to become a police officer, you and I versus you and me, yippikaiye, to call dibs
- 124 Topics: Cities: New Orleans9-1-1 emergency services, his or her, you don’t need to know versus you need not know, incident versus accident
- 125 Topics: Celebrity chefs, Americans and personal space, generic versus general, expressing height in feet and meters, prophecy versus prediction
- 126 Topics: Famous Americans: Grandma Moses;GED Tests, since versus from, is to do (something), calligraphy versus penmanship
- 127 Topics: Ask an American: Starving Artist; as a matter of fact, process versus procedure, to haggle
- 128 Topics: American cities: Portland, Oregon; Take Me Out to the Ballgame; ocean versus sea, ability versus capability
- 129 Topics: Norman Vincent Peale, Japanese internment camps, straightforward, to tap into, made by versus made of versus made in
- 130 Topics: becoming a lawyer in the U.S., famous lines from American movies, proper versus appropriate
- 131 Topics: The FBI; Reader’s Digest; consent versus assent, concord versus accord, the long and the short of it
- 132 Topics: Ask an American: Working as an actor in Los Angeles,? nevertheless versus despite versus even though, to screw up
- 133 Topics: dishonest political strategies; the Black Dahlia; treatment versus therapy; ending intimate letters and emails; you’re entitled to your opinion
- 134 Topics: American Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald; cigarette and alcohol advertising; pronouncing -ed, someone’s John Hancock
- 135 Topics: Types of vocational education in the U.S.; American Cities: Miami; to have a monkey on (one’s) back; to administer; to execute; to be off
- 136 Topics: The Betty Ford Center; poker; to be short on time versus time is running out, past year versus last year, supervisor versus manager
- 137 Topics: Ask an American: Bluegrass music; résumé versus curriculum vitae, the number 0 versus the letter O, one over the other
- 138 Topics: Monster truck shows and races; blue jeans and Levi Strauss, to be up against the wall, liability versus responsibility, pronouncing “either”
- 139 Topics: Native American reservations/Trail of Tears; retirement communities, the possessive “s,” to be subject to, to be subjected to, hedge trimming
- 140 Topics: New York Theater District/Broadway shows; Barbie dolls/G.I. Joe; I don’t have versus I have no, in the street versus on the street, identifying yourself on the phone
- 141 Topics: Classic children’s television: Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood; American Cities: Washington, D.C.; mix, combine, stir, and beat; stock photography
- 142 Topics: Ask an American: Getting Old;brethren versus brothers, would versus used to, I can’t wait anymore versus I can’t wait any longer
- 143 Topics: Harley Davidson; Famous Americans: Jesse Jackson; because versus since, yikes, speaking of which
- 144 Topics: Saturday Night Live; Howard Stern and shock jocks; using “to” in who, what, where, when, why questions; state of the art; ways to say “good job!”
- 145 Topics: Advanced Placement courses and tests; Legos/Legoland and Hot Wheels; might versus maybe; judgment call; no-brainer
- 146 Topics: Famous Americans: Annie Leibovitz; home shopping cable channels and celebrity product lines; come versus go; via versus through
- 147 Topics: Ask an American: Drive-in Theatersto wind (someone) up, you don’t say, how about you versus what about you
- 148 Topics: American Cities: San Francisco/Bay Area; the ACLU; using ‘back’ to refer to the past; failure versus error versus mistake
- 149 Topics: U.S. zoning laws; how to become a TV or movie screenwriter; unless versus if, in versus at for locations, persecute versus prosecute
- 150 Topics:Famous Americans: Great Jazz Artists Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald; the Amish; to be honest versus as a matter of fact; why don’t you versus let’s
- 151 Topics: D.B. Cooper; the Underground Railroad; extend versus expand; God forbid; brown-bag lunch
- 152 Topics: Ask an American: Tattoosto cover up (something), talk versus say versus speak, pronouncing certain consonants in the middle of words
- 153 Topics: American Cities: Chicago; The Star-Spangled Banner; just versus only versus mere; to kick butt
- 154 Topics: Famous Americans: Amy Tan; Americans with Disabilities Act; to take convincing, full-fledged, dude
- 155 Topics: The CIA; how to become a court interpreter and/or an interpreter for the U.N.; haunting versus haunted; completion versus completeness; to take (somebody) on
- 156 Topics: The Chinese Exclusion Act; Library of Congress and the public library system; I thought versus I think; anyway versus however; to make (someone) earn (something)
- 157 Topics: Ask an American: childhood obesity; besides vs. furthermore vs. moreover; wink-wink; thrill
- 158 Topics: American Cities: Salt Lake City; university admissions; within versus inside versus interior; so much for; to want out
- 159 Topics: Famous Americans: William Randolph Hearst; what to call people from the top five cities/states in the U.S.; please as the magic word; using an apostrophe (‘) for possessive cases, remember versus remind
- 160 Topics: Cook-offs and bake-offs; public health codes; a software evangelist; to look forward to; sandwich versus hamburger
- 161 Topics: Registering to vote and efforts to get out the vote; the G.I. Bill; growl, groan, and mutter; personnel and other collective nouns; to be fond of
- 162 Topics: Ask an American: cults; can versus could; will versus would; freedom versus liberty
- 163 Topics: Make-a-Wish Foundation; American Cities: Key West and the Florida Keys; must versus ought to versus need to; nuts and bolts; to buy (something)
- 164 Topics: Naming Rights; Famous Americans: Cesar Chavez; Why Americans have middle names; future perfect tense; American versus U.S. as an adjective
- 165 Topics: U.S. Mint; how auctions work; cache versus cash; listen to versus listen for
- 166 Topics: Brown v. Board of Education; yearbooks in American schools; indeed; none of them is/are; down to the wire
- 167 Topics: Ask an American: underage drinking; to chalk (something) up to; fluke; quite; ain’t; domino effect and chain reaction
- 168 Topics: American Cities: Detroit; wills, living wills, and advance healthcare directives; solution and solve vs. resolution and resolve; family vs. household
- 169 Topics: Alternative energy; Monticello; criticize versus chastise versus chasten; please inform versus please be informed; to denominate
- 170 Topics: Famous Americans: Weird Al Yankovic; Alcoholics Anonymous; figure out versus realize; kind of; noun + --ee and --er
- 171 Topics: America's Most Wanted; buying a first home; similar to but distinct from; on the side; a fair extent
- 172 Topics: Ask an American: forecasting the future; offhand; off the top of one’s head; out with the old, in with the new; using “more” versus “-er” to form the comparative
- 173 Topics: Famous Americans: Barack Obama; presidential inaugurations; common versus ordinary versus normal; darling and dear; full-fledged
- 174 Topics: The song Amazing Grace; specialty cable/satellite channels; to slay, to kill, to murder, to slaughter; I love it versus I’m loving it; dollar versus buck
- 175 Topics: Appalachia; family arrangements in the U.S.; pain, ache, and sore; diehard; fruitcake
- 176 Topics: The Innocence Project; Craigslist; percent versus percentage; the “in” crowd/place; to swear in
- 177 Topics: Ask an American: living in a tiny home; volume versus issue versus version
- 178 Topics: Famous Americans: Sacagawea; NASCAR racing; to take its toll (on someone); you are/is; whatever versus whatsoever
- 179 Topics: Anti-miscegenation laws; Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle; freeway, highway, and expressway; to sport; dosey doe
- 180 Topics: Medical/dental tourism; warehouse club stores; yell versus shout; to be depended on; to last; kind versus kindly