Select a highlighted lyric to learn more. O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, Clague: Instead of being spelled “oh,” this is the vocative case. It’s the biggest typo that one ...
Like his almost contemporary, Terence Rattigan, he had a genius for exposing the rot beneath the surface of upper-class British society. He was, in fact, something of a clairvoyant, predicting the way ...
The vocative case also tends to disappear. If Poles want to refer to or call somebody, they most often just use the nominative: ‘Cześć, Michał!’ (Hello, Michał!), and not: ‘Cześć Michale!’ – as the ...