Would you be wary of having a foreign language teacher who isn’t native in that language?

I can recount three stories about this—so you can judge for yourself.

Or, not And

Question from a client:

In the following sentence: “I am not going to discuss X, Y __ Z” what should come between Y and Z? I always thought it should be “and“ but should it be “or“? Or perhaps both are acceptable?

What words or phrases do you find cringeworthy?

(My answer to this question at Quora.com)

I don’t know if “cringe” is the right word, but there are a number of expressions that really rub me the wrong way: