- capitalization - To capitalize or not to capitalize southern . . .
It only loosely defines a region of California and its border is not officially defined either However, I was recently advised by someone who I consider to be educated to capitalize "southern" in this context
- Origin of the idiom go south - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What's the origin of the idiom go south? Why is it go south only? Why not go southwest or go east? Are the direction-related idioms go south, go north, go east, and go west correlated? Example, go
- adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English Language . . .
Is it East Coast, East coast, or east coast when used in a sentence such as, "The airline flies to both the East Coast and the West Coast?" I've seen it all ways I can't find a definitive answer a
- meaning - What does it mean to walk the wall? - English Language . . .
2 Walk the wall is a military term for "guard a border, watch those on the outside, keep those on the inside safe"
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 It depends on the morphology and the boundaries of the country Coastal road highway is an example of a road running along the border of a country partly surrounded by the sea A more generic expression is border road!
- Limit, border or boundary? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which word is most apt to state that there is a (abstract but definite) border which defines the difference between two religions, philosophies or faiths? Is it limit, border or boundary? For exam
- the USA vs. the US - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U S versus USA versus U S A from Wikipedia: Manual of Style: In American and Canadian English, U S (with periods) is the dominant abbreviation for United States US (without periods) is more common in most other national forms of English Some major American guides to style, such as The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed ), now deprecate U S and
- nouns - What is the word for the corner where ceiling and wall meet in . . .
Edit, for clarity: In math, two distinct planes may intersect on a line, and 3 distinct planes may intersect at a point Lines segments between two points are sometimes called edges I said "square room", but what technically meant was "cube room" I said "corner where one of the walls meet the ceiling" because I was thinking of the phrase, "Stand with his nose in the corner " I've heard the
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