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word usage - Can Pend be used as a transitive verb? - English . . . Probably, in this case, 'pend' lacks usage as there are other words available : defer, delay, postpone, such that we are spoilt for choice, as is often the case in English where we borrow other words from other languages and which duplicate concepts
Is to pend a verb? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The word "pending" is quite frequently used in English Accordingly, I used to think that "to pend" is a verb, and some of the online English dictionaries tend to agree However, my copy of Oxford
Send, sent; end, *ent? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The past tense of a number of verbs changes from -end to -ent: bend → bent lend → lent rend → rent send → sent spend → spent wend → went However, most do not, notably end Granted, I say “I ent up” (
What is the meaning of the phrase Hold the Pen? Well, I'm in the Singapore office of an American company The folks I've heard this from are Indian, Malay, and Scottish Some googling told me that the State Department uses this phrase to mean that while you may be writing something, the intellectual property and the views belong to the state department By holding the pen, you're merely a drafter This is quite a different meaning from the
differences - Pending vs Impending. Are they synonyms? - English . . . They are related, but they don't mean the same, not by a long shot "Pending" means something that one is waiting for "Patent pending"; a patent for this has been applied for, but it has not yet been granted Or "pending confirmation of these changes to the contract, we will sign it" Whereas "impending" means something that is about to happen soon (-ish) Hmm, I can only think of "impending
Where did the phrase dont spend it all in one store originate? I've usually heard it as “don't spend it all in one place,” which may help you track down more information This Ngram suggests that the phrase became common around the Great Depression, and most of the early citations I could find seemed to be sarcastic