- terminology - Term for the second letter in Sx, Dx, Rx? - English . . .
12 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
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- 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)
- How should Merry Christmas and Happy New Year be capitalized?
As others have mentioned, Christmas and New Year are proper nouns, and thus are capitalized Generally the phrases "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" are used in greetings, as headings, or in some other isolated way, and thus "Happy" and "Merry" are the first word of the sentence, and thus those words are capitalized Happy New Year! is a sentence by itself, and thus Happy should be
- 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
- history - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This question is related, but is not a duplicate, of Why do some words have quot;X quot; as a substitute? I have noticed that a few nouns can be significantly abbreviated with an "x" at the end
- Take Consider . . . as an example vs Take Consider . . . for example
Your take consider constructions seem like independent clauses (of the imperative variety) As such, common usage would suggest using the colon, dash, or period to mark the boundary between clauses Using a comma creates a comma splice
- 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
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