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Hello Bj,
You would not believe how I can relate to all this. I had so many of these questions when I was learning english. Which puts to mind a little story that really happened to me.
Back in 1962 when I first came here, not being able to speak english I relied on TV commercials, short sitcoms and reading advertising posters to learn the language. At that time my husband had just reup his tour of duty in the army and we were stationed in El Paso TX, I was not drawing an allotment check yet so we survived on only his income of $69 per month. We had a dog and could not afford dog food, so my husband would go out on the reservation a kill jack rabbits, bring them home and I would cook them for the dog. Well one day we were in town and I saw a large sign saying "Rabbit Ears 99cents", I turned to my husband and told him in broken english that maybe we could save the rabbit ears instead of throwing them away and sell them for 50 cents just to make some extra money. Needless to say he had to pull over because he got to laughing so hard he could not see to drive, that made me so mad. When we got home he explained to me the difference because we had a pair of rabbit ears on our black and white TV, what I called and ANTENNA. So you see the english language is very confusing to a newcommer. By the way that speach earn me a 96 when I was in college.
Bless you,
Gaby
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