Thanks! Got it! It's a superb article! I forwarded it to my daughter.

Sorry, Harold, I left an "s" out of the blasted link!

www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/14/learning-speak-american/

I keep getting a page not found Gaynor.

Sounds interesting though.

You might be interested in reading this blog by a British writer editing his own book for the American market:

www.nybooks.com/blog/nyrblog/2012/dec/14/learning-speak-american/

I tried the first line of A Tale of Two Cities after it pronounced the first line of Pride and Prejudice to be my original work but it was taking too long so I gave up. By the way, what the heck is a "dangling modifier" when it's at home? It sounds a bit Kenneth Williams doing Rambling Sid Rumpo to me!

They must have something against Homer because when I ran this quote:

"Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel."

It found it as an original text even though Homer Simpson is clearly the author.

Here's proof: http://www.2spare.com/item_61333.aspx

Me finds that amazing!

My first choice was Dylan Thomas' Do not go Gentle into that Good Nigh t . While Grammarly severely chastised his use of grammar--it did recognize that the piece may have been plagiarized.

Check your written text for grammar andplagiarism.

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=plagiarism&gclid=CIaW55DslLQCFcaiPAodaVkA4Q

As a test I entered the following text:

There is the heat of love, the pulsing rush of longing, the lovers whisper, irresistiblemagic to make the sanest man go mad.

Grammarly passed it with flying colors: Grammar, punctuation and originality. Sorry about that Homer! It was taken from the Iliad .

updated by @harold-powell: 11/11/15 10:38:31PM