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- When traveling abroad, are you oversea or overseas?
You should use overseas: both oversea and overseas literally mean across a sea, but overseas is much more common for the abstract meaning of abroad So if you're talking about literal travel across a sea, use oversea: I work in oversea shipping While if you mean generally abroad, use overseas: Is there an extra charge for overseas shipping? I will be overseas next week Edit: Just to clarify
- Overseas vs. abroad - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Both Royal Mail in the UK and US Postal Service use "overseas" stamped packaging and envelopes for sending postage to another country The mail services of all other European countries including the Russian Post use "abroad" stamped packaging and envelopes
- Have been through or have gone through? - English Language Usage . . .
7 These sentences both have perfectly acceptable grammar, but the intended meaning is not entirely clear Consider this phrasing: I have some long-lasting memories in my mind, such as memorable overseas trips that I have taken The phrases "been through" and "gone through" both can be used to imply enduring hardship or undergoing stress
- differences - Given that: a preposition or conjunction - English . . .
‘Physically shutting down the site would be very difficult given that it is hosted overseas ’ ‘His achievement is all the more impressive given that Fitzgerald has endured his fair share of injuries ’ The Oxford English Dictionaries also gave the examples of 'given' as a preposition without adding 'that' following by it:
- Is the term go-to-hell hat in common usage?
Also known as overseas cap and fore and aft hat And, from FUBAR F---ed Up Beyond All Recognition: Soldier Slang of World War II - Page 82 overseas cap Garrison cap Less restrained terms included "go- to-hell cap" and "cunt cap For Marines, "piss-cutter" and "fore-and-aft cap" Apparently, the one on the left is a "garrison cap"
- What are the words for the two parts of a round trip?
Are there two single words to differentiate the two parts of a round trip? If a single word does not exists, what is the shortest yet currently used locution?
- Redundancy in American Usage - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
My personal 2¢: I might use "other countries abroad" with "abroad" as a synonym of "overseas " That is, "other countries" include Canada and Mexico, but "other countries overseas" does not Or in other words, I don't hear the phrase as redundant, just precise
- Using via properly - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm an English-learning Japanese student I want to know if I'm using the word 'via' properly This is the sentence: " by telling Sato how you can meet people even if they live overseas via the
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