Know Your English - April 2002

• IS IT OK to say, "hook, line, and bait"?
• What is the difference between "cost" and "price"?
• Is it OK to say, "All classes are suspended in the aftermath of the All India elocution competition".
• How do you pronounce "tsetse"?
• WHAT IS the meaning and origin of the idiom "to live the life of Riley"?
• What is the meaning of "sixth sense"?
• How do you use the word "adrenalin"?
• What should a sign say? "No admission" or "No admittance"?
• Could you run that by me again ? WHAT IS the meaning of "gonna" and "wanna" ?
• What is the meaning and origin of the idiom "be hoist with one's own petard"?
• What is the difference between a "housewife", "housekeeper" and "housesitter"?
• How is the word "flibbertigibbet" pronounced?
• Working yourself up into a lather