- terminology - Term for the second letter in Sx, Dx, Rx? - English . . .
It seems plausible that the medical convention of using 'x' as the second letter of an abbreviation (in, for example, Dx (diagnosis), Sx (symptom or surgery), Fx (family), Hx (history), and Tx (transplant or treatment)) comes from copying the convention of using Rx as an abbreviation of prescription Rx is, as Dan Bron observed in his comment, most likely an approximation of the Latin
- What is the origin of TX as an abbreviation for transaction?
Medicine has a tendency to abbreviate many things using X: Biopsy - Bx, Dx - diagnosis, Fx - fracture, Hx - history, Sx - surgery, and Tx - transplant, transformation, transaction, therapy, treatment (though transaction is not the most common of terms in medicine)
- 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
- zh vs. j. Are these pronounced in the same way?
Pinyin uses zh and j to represent two distinct sounds in Chinese, but these sounds are not differentiated in English, so they are both pronounced like an English j However, as the answers mention, zh is commonly used to represent a voiced sh, the sound in words such as lesion and azure
- phrases - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Would have had to have been vs would have had to be for past event . . .
Both would have had to have been and would have had to be are pointlessly complex for most contexts Just would have to have been (with the first have pronounced haff) is all you need And even that's only if you need Past Tense - if not, it would hafta be like this
- synonyms - screenshot vs screen capture - English Language Usage . . .
Don't forget that there is a dedicated keyboard button named Prt Scn which literally translates to Print Screen even though it does not send anything to the printer It just takes a screenshot screen capture screen grab of your current desktop and loads it into memory, you can then use Ctrl+V to paste it into a Word document; this includes all monitors I always use screenshot
- Difference between This is and It is, These are and They are
When I should use "It is" and when "This is"? For example when I show an apple to my son, how is better to say: It is an apple This is an apple What is the main difference between abovementioned p
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