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- English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Q A for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- What is the meaning of it insists upon itself when referring the . . .
The point of the comment rather than the literal meaning is they're drowning and he's critiquing films Drowning is serious as the water insists upon itself, and he's sharing secrets of the heart about movies that are taken with their own importance
- How to reply to I hope you are well? [closed]
How to appropriately respond to someone saying quot;I hope you are well ? quot; There are certain situations in writing where this would obviously not be soliciting a response (requiring a full s
- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four. . year
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
- Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or either
Is there a rule on acronyms and initialisms being spelled out with the first letter of each word being uppercase or lowercase? Example: interim final rule (IFR) Interim Final Rule (IFR)
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I #39;s seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
Variants that are relative newcomers As for the suggested longer expression "Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one," the earliest matches I could find for it are two instances from 2007 From Drum magazine (2007) [combined snippets]: The full phrase is actually " Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one " Being multi-skilled
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