- word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;?
22 They can also be called chevrons, or angle brackets While these terms can be interchangeable in a layman's context, and would not look so different when written by hand, there are 4 different symbols in the Unicode standard, and they have different usages In mathematics, "greater than" and "lesser than" would be the correct precise terms
- questions - What is it called? VS What is it spelled? - English . . .
Is it because, in 'what is it called?', we are asking about the name of the object, and not necessarily the way to call it? I think if I write this, that will confuse my readers even more because they can also think that the name of the object is also the way we call it
- grammar - referred to as vs. called - English Language Usage . . .
In a sentence, is it better to use referred to as sth or called sth In the sentence I'm talking about TLS which is: most frequently referred to as SSL or most frequently called SSL I k
- Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
- What the #$@ %*! is that called? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
These have also been called obscenicons Several links on Language Log offer an in-depth look at their usage More on the early days of obscenicons Obscenicons a century ago CALL ME UNPRONOUNCEABLE The "word" represented by the symbols could be pronounced bleep: So people came up with a small set of conventional euphemistic readings for <expletive suppressed>: "bleep", "bleeping", "bleepity
- Is there any difference between is called the vs. is called a?
The identifier immediately following the define is called the macro name This pattern is called the usual arithmetic conversions: The least significant bit is called the low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit After preprocessing, a preprocessing translation unit is called a translation unit
- etymology - Why shrink (of a psychiatrist)? - English Language . . .
I know it originates from "head shrinking", but it doesn't help me a lot to understand the etymology Why are psychiatrists called that? Is it like "my head is swollen [from anguish, misery, stress
- What is the name of this type of word: Mr. , Ms. , Dr. ?
What is this type of word called: Mr , Ms , Dr ? In the document I am using, it is referred to as the "prefix", but I don't think that is correct
|