Apr 13, 2017 · Why is there an 'ai' in plaid if it is pronounced "plad"? That's a word that used to trip me up when I was a little tyke. That's a word that used to trip me up when I was a little …

The Corpus of Contemporary American English shows that plaid is much more common in American English (more than 3x) than the variants of checked combined.

There is no such equivalent phrase that I know of for any English-speaking country. However thanks to the prevalence of US media, the phrase "plead the fifth" or "take the fifth" is widely …

Jul 31, 2011 · First, I don't quite agree with this statement: great is the only common English word in which "ea" is pronounced /eɪ/.