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- Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled?
This explains why the medical specialist was at odds with The Guardian writer editor over the treatment of the acronym COVID-19 Newspaper guidelines for formatting of 'COVID-19' 'Covid-19' It's tempting to view preference for spelling acronyms as all-lowercase or initial-capped-only words as peculiar to British journalism
- How did the word beaver come to be associated with vagina?
From " Why King George of England May Have to Lose His Beard: How the Game of 'Beaver' Which All England Is Playing Is So Threatening the Proper Reverence for the Throne That Banishment of the Royal Whiskers Seems Imperative," in the Washington [D C ] Times (October 22, 1922):
- Reason for different pronunciations of lieutenant
While Americans (and possibly others) pronounce this as "loo-tenant", folks from the UK pronounce it as "lef-tenant" Why?
- Why is the sound air in words like chair, pear and where . . .
We know that phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in speech, and that in the IPA, each character represents only one sound Wouldn't 'air' be considered two sounds - the combination of the sound
- phrase origin - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is a crime where the robbers wait outside a bank and identify people that are likely to have withdrawn money and then follow them to a place where they are robbed Just today I saw this refer
- Why is it called hypochondria instead of hyperchondria?
If hyper essentially means excessive and hypo means the opposite then how does this word make and sense? It seems like some people decided to improperly make a word out of Greek terminology but
- Where does the use of why as an interjection come from?
"why" can be compared to an old Latin form qui, an ablative form, meaning how Today "why" is used as a question word to ask the reason or purpose of something
- Where does the exclamation F***ing Hell originate?
As we all know, the underworld cannot fornicate as it is not a living being (probably) Where then, did the natural-feeling pairing of swear-words "Fucking hell" come from?
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