Science teachers have claimed that they can't be expected to write decent English.

But he spoke excellent French and decent English, and knew the Toubkal valleys by heart.

I asked, but Malsothosotho himself responded in surprisingly decent English, "Hope.

"We helped bring Zaid up from the pit," one of them, a brawny young fellow, told Daniel in decent English.

The good news, as they saw it, was that certain female French citizens went out of their way to speak decent English, and were very helpful indeed.

You see the poor chap could hardly talk halfway decent English, and I'm sure he never could write my name like this.

But it was my principal teacher of decent English.

"Don't be a jerk," he said in pretty decent English, "this is China."

He handed the letter to Dana Da to translate into decent English.

She said in decent English, "You come from Austria?"