- More Bored Vs Boreder - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Boreder" might be considered "legal" according to some guidelines, but is to be avoided because of the likely confusion with "border"
- 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"
- 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
- 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!
- 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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