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- Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
- Less aggressive synonym for left the company
I am looking for a single word that you would use when someone has left a company This can be because the person quit, they are fired, retired, I was thinking about Discharged but that seems li
- Can An ass that wont quit connote stubbornness?
An ass that just won't quit is callipygian, not equine I have Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American slang open to won't quit: outstanding; great; truly beautiful It's hard to disprove a negative, but I simply cannot idiomatically read "ass" in your text as relating to stubbornness
- What is the proper usage of quite a few?
Quite a few expresses that the speaker was impressed or astonished by the number, as they would have expected less Or the speaker wants to emphasize on the fact that it was "more than you would think" Yet I do not think that there is an order involved that quite a few would be less than many The intended effect is different One could call it understatement
- Alumnus vs dropout: Can you still call someone who chooses to quit . . .
If someone chooses to quit college, I can refer to that person as a “former” student of that college It therefore appears that I can use alumnus according to the definitions given for that term gi
- The origin of “go cold turkey” - English Language Usage Stack . . .
You can use other verbs with the phrase Go is the most common, but you can also quit cold turkey, or kick something cold turkey There may be others As to the phrase's origin, Etymonline favors the "quick preparation" theory and indicates there was a period of time where it was not associated with kicking a bad habit It also curiously Cf 's cold shoulder: cold turkey "without preparation
- What are the origins for the phrases Knock it off and Cut it out?
When taken literally, the colloquial phrases "Knock it off" and "Cut it out" do not seem to mean "Stop what you're doing " How did these two phrases get their current meanings?
- Which is correct - most quiet or quietest? [duplicate]
Since quiet is a two-syllable adjetive, the rule-of-thumb would make more quiet and most quiet the expected comparative forms; however, quietest and quieter are six-times more common (or, as many would say, "commoner " Both forms are correct, but the single-word construction is what the American ear expects to hear
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