English

Expressions

In my defense it was dark	Pour ma défense il faisait noir.
Don't get your knickers in a twist/knot	~ Calm down, ne fait pas de noeuds dans tes sous-vêtements
spritzing the SKUNK with eau de cologne.
hanging garlands from the corpses' ears
People go to the site looking for things → Things people go to the site looking for
X is 99 times more than Y, but it is 100 times that of Y.
As opposed to smthg	Au contraire de qch, au lieu de qch
By my count, you have...	D'après mes calculs, vous avez...

Don't say but say...

Some examples on how to say things simply and clearly

Don't say ...	... but say ...
there is still a correlation check to make sure that the OBE indeed reported that it was at the same location as the enforcement equipment and at the same time as reported by the equipment	there is also a specific check of location given by OBE against location of enforcement equipment
My coin has fallen	My penny dropped

Spelling mistakes

Bad	Good
fixed input length	fixed input-length or fixed-length input

Grammar

• Not to or to not ?

The default construction is not to + INF (like in I decided not to go). However the split infinitive construction to not + INF seems to be allowed as well (like in I decided to not go). Note that I decided not to go is not the same as I did not decide to go!

Tongue Twisters

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Bill Badger brought the bear a bit of boiled bacon in a brown bag.

Heather was hoping to hop to Taihiti To hack a hibiscus to hang on her hat. Now Heather has hundreds of hats on her hat rack. So how can a hop to Taihiti help that?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Red lorry, yellow lorry

Red leather robots, yellow leather robots

Seventeen slimy slugs in shiny sombreros sat singing short sad songs.

She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon this slitted sheet I sit.

Do scientists see thieves seize skies? If scientists see thieves seize skies, then where are the skies, the scientists see the thieves seize?

Thirty three thin Finns throw forty three frogs into four Thracian theatres.

The Awfullest Thistle: The successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, stuck three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter In sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, Thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. If Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, Can thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, See thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.

Which witch winds white weasel wool well?

How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood? A Woodchuck Would Chuck As Much Wood As A Woodchuck Could, If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood.